diff --git a/static/js/URL.js b/static/js/URL.js
index 47a185278..c6d274b1c 100644
--- a/static/js/URL.js
+++ b/static/js/URL.js
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ pandora.URL = (function() {
                         set[!state.item ? 'collectionView' : 'documentView'] = state.view;
                     }
                     if (state.span) {
-                        if (Ox.isNumber(state.pan)) {
+                        if (Ox.isNumber(state.span)) {
                             set['documents.' + state.item] = {position: state.span};
                         } else {
                             set['documents.' + state.item] = {name: state.span};
diff --git a/static/js/textPanel.js b/static/js/textPanel.js
index d04e5541b..a7aa41293 100644
--- a/static/js/textPanel.js
+++ b/static/js/textPanel.js
@@ -393,8 +393,17 @@ pandora.ui.textHTML = function(text) {
         if (settings.name) {
             element = that.find('*[data-name="' + settings.name + '"]');
             if (element.length) {
-                scrollTop = Math.max(that[0].scrollTop + element.offset().top - 48, 0);
-                position = 100 * scrollTop / that[0].scrollHeight;
+                scrollTop = that[0].scrollTop + element.offset().top;
+                if (pandora.user.ui.page == 'document') {
+                    scrollTop -= 48;
+                } else {
+                    scrollTop -= 80;
+                    if (pandora.user.ui.showBrowser) {
+                        scrollTop -= (112 + Ox.UI.SCROLLBAR_SIZE);
+                    }
+                }
+
+                position = 100 * Math.max(scrollTop, 0) / that[0].scrollHeight;
             }
         }
         scrollTo(position);
diff --git a/static/js/utils.js b/static/js/utils.js
index 22ddb5862..b923954c5 100644
--- a/static/js/utils.js
+++ b/static/js/utils.js
@@ -1994,9 +1994,11 @@ pandora.getSpan = function(state, val, callback) {
                 if (Ox.contains(['epub', 'pdf', 'txt'], extension)) {
                     state.span = Ox.limit(parseInt(val), 1, dimensions);
                 } else if (Ox.contains(['html'], extension)) {
-                    //fixme: allow numbers or check names?
-                    //state.span = Ox.limit(parseInt(val), 0, 100);
-                    state.span = val
+                    if (pandora.isNumericalSpan(val)) {
+                        state.span = Ox.limit(parseInt(val), 0, 100);
+                    } else {
+                        state.span = val;
+                    }
                 } else if (Ox.contains(['gif', 'jpg', 'png'], extension)) {
                     values = val.split(',');
                     if (values.length == 4) {
@@ -2443,6 +2445,12 @@ pandora.isLicensed = function() {
     return !pandora.site.license || pandora.site.license > +new Date();
 };
 
+pandora.isNumericalSpan = function(str) {
+    return str.split(',').every(function(str) {
+        return /^[0-9-\.:]+$/.test(str);
+    });
+}
+
 pandora.isPrintURL = function(url) {
     url = url || document.location.href;
     var hash = Ox.parseURL(url).hash;