Why do page anchors sometimes miss?

Question

On an HTML page, a link like this:

Location on Page

...should navigate to this spot on the

Answer 1

As mentioned above, this is probably due to images being rendered late and 'adjusting' the layout as they load.

If you can specify the size of the images then that much room can be allocated before they render, which should prevent the problem.

As a side note I've had this problem before in the form of using forward/back between enough pages that the images needed reloading, causing me to end up in the wrong place after they had rendered.