Whereas the François' patch used to work nicely, it is not the case anymore, despoite an up-to-date TeX Live 2012: the following MCE (say test.tex):

run with `htlatex test`, gives the following error:

and, in the html output, `\nameref{test}` is replaced by: `:autorefsectionSome title<!--tex4ht:ref: test -->`

Hello

It seems there is a bug with hyperref.4ht/nameref.4ht.

I attach the file test.tex.

If you run twice pdflatex on test.tex, the commands \nameref{test1} and \nameref{test2} gives hyperlinks Court1 and Court2.

If you run htlatex on test.tex, the commands \nameref{test1} and \nameref{test2} gives hyperlinks Long1 and Long2.

I have found a patch: if you uncomment lines 12 to 22 of test.tex and if you run htlatex, then the commands \nameref{test1} and \nameref{test2} gives hyperlinks Court1 and Court2

But:

1/ I don't know if that patch is robust and works in all cases (side-effects if package hyperref not loaded?)

2/ I don't know where to put these lines of code (I think the new definition of \:StartSec must be in nameref.4ht, but where must be the new definition of \no@sect?)

Best regards

François Pétiard