I have links like this:
<a class="faq_text_header_jump" href="#general_questions">General Questions</a><br>
<a class="faq_text_header_jump" href="#how">How do i..</a><br>
<a class="faq_text_header_jump" href="#once_you_book">Once you've booked lessons..</a>
And a target like so:
<div class="faq_text_section_header" id="how"><h2>How do I...?</h2></div>
But my 2nd and 3rd links don't work.
See an example here: http://lessonshark.com/dev1/homes/faq
HTML has a solution for that.
use
<a name="target">
to mark the position in the page you want to jump to
<a href="page.html#target">
Use the id attribute to specify the destination of the link. This is the recommended practice, though the older <a name=...>...</a> works too, though it is more limited. What you must not do under any circumstances is to specify the destination twice using the same name. Currently the markup has
<a name="how_do_i">
<div class="faq_text_section_header" id="how_do_i" >How do I...?</div></a>
This is invalid as per HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 (though permitted in HTML5 drafts), since an a element must not contain a div element. More seriously, this makes how_do_i doubly defined, which can cause just about anything. Fix this to just
<div class="faq_text_section_header" id="how_do_i" >How do I...?</div>
and make sure that your link uses href="#how_do_i" (as it does now, but the question said otherwise). Consider making that div an h2 (and tune the stylesheet accordingly), since it’s really a heading.
Also note that in the link,
<a class="faq_text_header_jump"href="#how_do_i">How do i..</a>
there should be a space before href. This is just formal syntax, but it is best to get it right so that you can utilize a validator efficiently.
You need a named anchor somewhere in your document.
To create a named anchor, just use HTML like this:
<a name="anynameyoulike"></a>
Then, you can jump back to that point in the page with a link like this one:
Jump to Named Anchor
Related
So I have a box on the right side of the page which when clicked on different titles will take to different news articles on the page though I also have it so when articles within the website titles are clicked upon on the page that they will be taken to the source. At the moment though neither are working what is going wrong?
html
<a name="Anchor1">News Article</a>
Use id attribute inside the link to have the same effect as name attribute
<a id="Anchor1" href="http://newsarticle.com">News Article</a>
Simply add an id attribute to the link:
<a id="foo" href="http://newsarticle.com">News Article</a>
Then link to it like this:
link to foo
Nested <a> elements are forbidden in HTML syntax.
Browsers effectively enforce this restriction in their parsing rules.
Example:
if you have a link ,
a<a href="b.html">bc</a>
Browsers will parse it as,
a b c
Reference: Nested links are illegal.
I have a link on one page that needs to go to a different page, but load to a specific section on that other page.
I have done this before with bootstrap but they take all the 'coding' out of it, so I need to know how to do from scratch. Here is the markup I have based on this link (not the best resource, I know): http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp
**Page One**
<a href="/academics/page.html#timeline> Click here </a>
**Page I am linking to**
<div id="timeline" name="timeline"> ... </div>
Can I do this with just HTML, or do I need some JavaScript? If I need to do it via JS, it needs to be on the target page, right?
I believe the example you've posted is using HTML5, which allows you to jump to any DOM element with the matching ID attribute. To support older browsers, you'll need to change:
<div id="timeline" name="timeline" ...>
To the old format:
<a name="timeline" />
You'll then be able to navigate to /academics/page.html#timeline and jump right to that section.
Also, check out this similar question.
You can simply use
<a href="directry/filename.html#section5" >click me</a>
to link to a section/id of another page by
To navigate to a section of another page use:
<a href="example.html#example-section>name-of-link</a>
The example.html would be the page you want to go to, and the #example-section would be the name of the id on that page that you want to navigate to.
To link from a page to another section of the page, I navigate through the page depending on the page's location to the other, at the URL bar, and add the #id. So what I mean;
This takes you #the_part_that_you_want at the page before
I tried the above answer - using page.html#ID_name it gave me a 404 page doesn't exist error.
Then instead of using .html, I simply put a slash / before the # and that worked fine. So my example on the sending page between the link tags looks like:
El Chorro
Just use / instead of .html.
To link from a page to another section just use
my first div
The first Google search result for "html links" says (paraphrased) that to create a bookmark / section inside a webpage, we've to do this:
<a id='section-2'>Section 2</a>
so that we can link to it like this:
<a href='page.php#section-2' >Click</a>
But why the site is recommending using anchor tag around "Section 2"? -When it can be done using span:
<span id='section-2'>Section 2</span>
Are there compatibility issues? Because the first search result for "creating bookmarks within a webpage" also says to surround the heading with anchor tag:
<p><a name="title">Title</p>
Though this particular example is incorrect for various other reasons.
I've a supplementary question:
Why to surround the heading with the container when it can be done simply like this:
<span id='section-2'></span>Section 2
Does it matter?
<span id='section-2'>Sec</span>tion 2
<a href='page.php#section-2' >Click</a>
There is no point. W3schools is unreliable, just don’t use it, and you will avoid confusion and wrong information; see http://w3fools.com
In the old days, the only way to set a destination anchor within a page was to use <a name=...>...</a> element (at the text level). Later, the id attribute was added and is now supported by all browsers in use, so you can make any element a destination anchor simply by attaching an id attribute to it. E.g., to make it possible to link to a heading like <h2>Section 2</h3>, you could make it just <h2 id=section-2>Section 2</h2>. No need for an artificial extra element.
Using <span id='section-2'></span>Section 2, though formally correct, is not a good idea. You win nothing by using it, as opposite to the more logical markup. And if you e.g. later want to style (highlight) the element to which the user has “jumped” into with a link, using the :target pseudo-class, you will find yourself in an awkward position: the pseudo-class would let you style just the empty content of the span.
Regarding the question in the title, there is no reason to make the top of a page an destination anchror, with <a id='top'>Top of page</a> or otherwise. First, you can refer to the start of the page using just href=# since by URL specifications, # denotes the start of the current resource. Second, “Back to top” links are basically useless or worse: every browser has a simple command for going to the start of the page, and an explicit “Back to top” link can be confusing: back to top of what?
In the early days of html an anchor element was the only way to do this, but just because you can now do it with other element types doesn't mean you should: using an anchor for this purpose is semantically correct because it makes it clear to anybody reading or maintaining your markup that the element is intended as a navigation target. (Noting that there will often be many elements on the page that have an id but are not navigation targets.)
"Why to surround the heading with the container when it can be done simply like this:
<span id='section-2'></span>Section 2
Because if you put the text of your heading inside an element you can style it and/or easily mess with it from JavaScript. Indeed, if it is a heading you may want to put it in an <h1>, <h2>, etc. tag rather than a <span>.
I`ve seen on various websites, some links appear like this: http://www.myserver.com/page.html#something and when I click on it, it just moves to another portion of the page.
I want to know how to do this. Is it only the URL of the <a href> atrribute?
The fragment at the end of the url coresponds to an ID on the page you're visiting.
If in my page I have a section such as:
<div id="comments">
...
</div>
Then I can take the user to this section by attaching #comments to the pages URL
(http://www.example.com/page.html#comments)
Link to comments
Update
Some of the other answers here correctly point out that you can create an anchor with a name attribute as: <a name="example"></a>.
Although this is technically correct, it's also a very antiquated way of doing things and something I'd recommend you avoid. It's very 1997 as some might say :-)
The text after the hashtag corresponts with an anchor on the page. An anchor is a hidden element on the page which you can link to.
Think for example about a large page with an to top link in it
To create an anchor use:
<a name="C4"></a>
To link to it use: Text
Or you can even link to an id of an element
Check out: links (aka anchors)
Also note that you can use <a name="something"></a> or <a id="something"></a>
or using divs <div id="something"></div>
This is a link to a bookmark on the given page (or even just #something on the current page).
To make it work, you need to define something. You can do this using the name attribute of an <a> tag.
http://programming.top54u.com/post/HTML-Anchor-Bookmark-Tag-Links.aspx
I'm trying to get everything in the anchor tag to be a clickable link. Unfortunately, in IE6 (which is the only browser I'm concerned with currently), the only thing that isn't a clickable link are the inline images. I know that it's not valid html to put a div inside of an anchor but it's not my markup and I've been asked to avoid changing it. Any suggestions to altering the CSS to enable the images as clickable links? If changing the markup is the only solution... any suggestions there? My initial thought was to set the image as a background of it's parent (.ph-item-featured-img), although I'm unclear if that will solve the problem.
Thanks!
<div class="tab-panel-init clear ui-tabs-panel ui-widget-content ui-corner-bottom" id="ph-flashlights">
<a href="#" class="last ph-item-featured clear">
<div class="ph-item-featured-img">
<img src="#">
</div>
<strong>
PRODUCT CODE
</strong>
<p>
PRODUCT CODE Heavy Duty Aluminum Led Flashlight
</p>
<span>Learn more ></span> </a>
<a href="#" class="last ph-item-featured clear">
<div class="ph-item-featured-img">
<img src="#">
</div>
<strong>
PRODUCT CODE
</strong>
<p>
PRODUCT CODE Heavy Duty Aluminum Led Flashlight
</p>
<span>Learn more ></span> </a>
</div>
The problem is that it isn't valid html. Explain that you have to change the markup to make it work as desired. Changing the div to a span and setting the class .ph-item-featured-img to display: block should produce the same look-and-feel and be correct html.
Edit: Another, not as clean solution, is to add a click-listener with JavaScript and invoke the link upon a click on the image.
If you can't change the mark up (which you admit isn't valid), I don't think there is anything you can do here.
You should reconsider changing the markup. This example is bad in so many ways it could serve as a textbook example of what not to do.
Alternate strategies:
Remove everything but the image and
give it an onclick handler that does
the link mechanics.
Remove the DIV and just have the IMG
inside the anchor tag.
etc.
Well i looks like youre already using jQueryUI so why not just through a click even on the containing DIV. Also you should definitely change the markup. If its not valid, its not valid. That can lead to all kinds of problems other than the one youre currently facing. If there is a good reason for change this is it.
This is what the w3c validator returns when I pass in the snippet you posted:
Line 15, Column 46: document type does not allow element "DIV" here; missing one of "OBJECT", "MAP", "BUTTON" start-tag
<div class="ph-item-featured-img">
The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you've placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you've forgotten to close a previous element.
One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as "<p>" or "<table>") inside an inline element (such as "<a>", "<span>", or "<font>").
If I remember correctly, IE6 requires that every element inside of the <a> tag to be an element with CSS display: inline set on it (or inline-by-default elements like <span>, <b>, <strong>, etc.), or else it doesn't get linked, or links act weird.
Perhaps it is even IE6's HTML parser that is to blame. Maybe it sees the <img src="#"> and thinks, "that's not a valid URL to an image! :ignore:". IE6 is strange that way, often acting in a way that is a diametric opposite to how standards-compliant browsers act.
Truth is, this I have no way of checking all this; thankfully, every Windows computer I have access to has IE7+ on it. Perhaps you should take Google's route and just explicitly say that you're not going to support IE6, redirecting all IE6 browsers to a place where they can upgrade.
I believe you can do this with conditional comments like so:
<html>
<head>
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<meta http-equiv="refresh"
content="2;url=http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx" />
<![endif]-->
...
</head>