MarkStrobel3367
Member
How do I go about having a text link direct the viewer to the part of the same page where that specific information can be found so that viewers do not have to do a lot of scrolling before reaching the desired info? Thanks.
Directing a text link to a different part of the same page
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This will work, or the traditional method:
Use a link to jump to a named section
HTML:
<a href="#anchor">Goto Page Anchor</a>
HTML:
...
<strong><a name="anchor">Anchor</a></strong>NOTE: It is not required that you insert text into the anchor, just that you name it the same in the href and name attributes. Anchors cannot be self closed (i.e "<a name="test" /> ); it will not validate.
MarkStrobel3367
Member
Thank you so much!! Your suggests were very helpful!! I wish you and your families a Happy New Year!!!
LouTheDesigner
New Member
I'd go with smoovo's method as the name attribute is limited. Can't be applied to divs.
-Lou
-Lou
Just for the sake of discussion
, your are right, the name attribute cannot be added to a div element...but you can add an anchor right before the div or immediately inside of it. Like so:
HTML:
<a name="Lou"></a>
<div>....content...</div>
OR
<div>
<a name="Lou"></a>
....content....
</div>I'm posting my question onto the end of this old thread, because this IS a good fit.
I have a page where I inserted named anchors (using the ID tag FWIW). They work great: I click the link, page jumps to named anchor at the top.
But when I scroll back to the top of the page (or anywhere else) and hit refresh, the page jumps BACK to the named anchor*. How do I make the page NOT do that?
*Refresh takes the page to the named anchor because when the link to the named anchor is selected, the anchor name is appended to the url. So when I select refresh I am asking to refresh the address in the url window, which is the address for the named anchor!