Linking to section of page does not work when you define the section as a symbol

I have a contact section in my page toward the bottom that has an id of contact which is linked from the navbar. But then I made that section a symbol to copy across all pages and now the symbol does not recognize the contact section tag I created in the inner element. Why is this happening?

https://webflow.com/design/cad?preview=8db6b6b4a108aa7ec50b0d7e0a72ad74

I had a message saying ā€œcanā€™t find section contactā€ but then after I clicked OK it scrolled down. I know it should work because I have the same on a website of mine.

I undid the contact symbol, changed the section ID and set it to SECTION

then undid the menu symbol, updated the link

redid both symbols and it worked fine

So maybe a bugā€¦ redo the procedure a bit and it may work on your side tooā€¦

If I inspect your code as you share it, your contact manu item is linked to nothing as ā€˜contactā€™ doesnā€™t register in the dropdown menu

Did several tests and yes the sections IDs appear and disappear from the drop down link-to-section menuā€¦ may be affected wether theyā€™re in a symbol or not. Canā€™t define a rule here.

Just a curiosity. Why is your link settings panel so darkā€¦?

I was wondering the exact same thing as @bartekkustra

And the font is different. And the icons are bolder I think. But that might be the reason of the bg being darkened.

I donā€™t know, maybe it can happen after long sessionsā€¦ my system and softwares quite never crashes so I never reboot them forā€¦ weeks sometimes.

Today the same panel, same site, same capture tool

http://cl.ly/image/172C1D3a0P2F/Screen%20Shot%202014-09-06%20at%2014.09.37.png

You know stuff we donā€™t.

Damnit! I knew this would happen, you canā€™t fool a JS coder that longā€¦ I admit everything guys, the truth is somewhere elseā€¦

http://cl.ly/image/2Q0E1B3h3t1m/eye_pyramid_icon.png

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I laughed so hard my wife looked at me with sadness and disappointment ^^ You couldnā€™t have taken better image to it ;D

But Iā€™m still watching youā€¦

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OMG I just died from reading all this LOLING TO THE GREATEST EXTENT OVER HERE

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