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)
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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
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How do you link (with <a>) so that the browser goes to certain subheading on the target page as opposed to the top?
If there is any tag with an id (e.g., <div id="foo">), then you can simply append #foo to the URL. Otherwise, you can't arbitrarily link to portions of a page.
Here's a complete example: Jump to #foo on page.html
Linking content on the same page example: Jump to #foo on same page
It is called a URI fragment.
You use an anchor and a hash. For example:
Target of the Link:
<a name="name_of_target">Content</a>
Link to the Target:
Link Text
Or, if linking from a different page:
Link Text
On 12 March 2020, a draft has been added by WICG for Text Fragments, and now you can link to text on a page as if you were searching for it by adding the following to the hash
#:~:text=<Text To Link to>
Working example on Chrome Version 81.0.4044.138:
Click on this link Should reload the page and highlight the link's text
Just append a hash with an ID of an element to the URL. E.g.
<div id="about"></div>
and
http://mysite.com/#about
So the link would look like:
About
or just
About
Here is how:
Go Middle
<div id="go_middle">Hello There</div>
You have two options:
You can either put an anchor in your document as follows:
<a name="ref"></a>
Or else you give an id to a any HTML element:
<h1 id="ref">Heading</h1>
Then simply append the hash #ref to the URL of your link to jump to the desired reference. Example:
Jump to ref in document.html
Provided that any element has the id attribute on a webpage.
One could simply link/jump to the element that is referenced by the tag.
Within the same page:
<div id="markOne"> ..... </div>
......
Jump to markOne
Other page:
<div id="http://randomwebsite.com/mypage.html#markOne">
Jumps to the markOne element in the mypage of the linked website
</div>
The targets don't necessarily have an anchor element.
You can go check this fiddle out.
I am trying to create a set of links to specific sections in the page using the <a href="#..."> notation, but it doesn't seem to work. Clicking on the link seems to do nothing and right-click -> open in a new tab changes the url but does not move to a different section of the page. I am using Firefox 28.0. My links are as follows:
<div>
<p>Contents</p>
<ul>
<li>Map</li>
<li>Timing</li>
<li>Timing Details</li>
</ul>
</div>
And they should be linking to:
<div id="map">[content]</div>
<div id="timing">[content]</div>
<div id="timingdetails">[content]</div>
Links to external webpages work fine. Placing the id="..." feature inside an <a> tag instead did not fix the problem. My webpage url is of the form http://127.0.0.1/foo/bar/baz/. This is within a Python Django project.
Any idea why this isn't working?
Every href needs a corresponding anchor, whose name or id attribute must match the href (without the # sign). E.g.,
Map
<a name="map">[content]</a>
An enclosing div is not necessary, if not used for other purposes.
Wow, thanks for pointing that out OP. Apparently Mozilla Firefox doesn't associate the id attribute with a location in the HTML Document for elements other than <a> but uses the name attribute instead, and Google Chrome does exactly the opposite. The most cross-browser proof solution would be to either:
1.Give your anchor divs both a name and an id to ensure max. browser compatibility, like:
Go to Map <!-- Link -->
----
<div id="map" name="map"></div> <!-- actual anchor -->
Demo: http://jsbin.com/feqeh/3/edit
2.Only use <a> tags with the name attribute as anchors.
This will allow the on-page links to work in all browsers.
what happened with me is that the href does not work second time and that because I should Remove hash value first,,
take look how I resolved it
go to Content 1
function resetHref() {
location.hash = '';
}
Just resurrecting this post because I had a similar problem and the reason was something else.
In my case it was because we had:
<base href="http://mywebsite.com/">
defined on the .
Obviously, don't just remove it, because you need it if you are using relative paths.
Read more here:
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_base.asp
Content 1
Content 2
Content 3
....
<a name="1"></a>Text here for content 1
<a name="2"></a>Text here for content 2
<a name="3"></a>Text here for content 3
When clicking on "Content 1" it will take directly to "Text here for Content 1.
Guaranteed!
Today being March of 2022, I had a specific occurrence of this problem that illustrates how the whole web environment is an "issue" today.
Same requirement: links that go to a section of the page.
It worked on my desktop's Chrome and Firefox, but not on my client's and neither on my Android's Chrome.
After reading multiple threads several times for a few hours, I found out that, in order for this behavior to be the most consistent across browsers and browser versions, you have to implement both things:
a container with an id, and
an anchor with a name property,
The most important part is that the anchor tag with a name, must have content inside of it.
So, you have your links
Go to section
<!-- more links -->
And you have the sections you want your links to go to
<div id="page-section">
<a name="page-section" class="collapse"> placeholder-content (important) </a>
<!-- your section content -->
</div>
Since you MUST have content inside the anchor with the name, you can then hide it in several ways.
My approach was to just set it's height to 0.
In order for the height to be effective, the anchor tag's display property should be set to block or inline-block for example.
.collapse {
height: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
display: block;
}
Finally it all worked, and I have to thank the many developers who struggle with this sort of thing (which should be much easier to do, but, the web...), and all the people who answer questions like this and share their knowledge.
This might help
JS:
function goto($hashtag){
document.location = "index.html#" + $hashtag;
}
HTML :
<li><a onclick="goto('aboutus')">ABOUT</a></li>
In my case The input tag was the problem. I implemented my tabs by input (radio buttons) which was preventing the anchor tag's behaviour.
It was like this at first (not working):
<a href="#name">
<li>
<label></label>
<input></input>
</li>
</a>
Then I removed the input tag and it worked:
<a href="#name">
<li>
<label></label>
// <input></input> <!-- removed it -->
</li>
</a>
Make sure you're not using preventDefault in javascript
Here is something that I finally got to work in IE, Chrome and Firefox.
Around any text create an anchor tag like this:
<a class="anchor" id="X" name="X">text</a>
Set "X" to whatever you want.
You must enclose something in the anchor tags such as text or an image. It will NOT work without these.
For the link, use this:
text
As for getting rid of the CSS for links using our anchor tag use something like this:
a.anchor {
color:#000;
text-decoration:none;
}
This seems to work well.
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
I want to link to a section of a dynamic page using the # anchor. Something like this:
<a href=page.php?id=3#section-name>LINK</a>
It didn't work. What is the right way to do it?
I'm not using a direct link, but a redirect like header("Location:page.php?id=3#section-name") from another script.
I have a section named section-name in file page.php. I guess page.php has a problem figuring out the value of the id to process (3 or 3#section-name). I am redirected to page.php which has its content repeated vertically.
You've only presented half of your code so I can only give a sample of the proper way to do it:
<body>
<a name="top"> </a>
<a href="#top">
Go To Top Of Page
</a>
</body>
When using anchor tags, you can target an element by its ID. Browsers will look for the ID before it looks for the name attribute when the link refers to such.
<a href="#section-name>LINK</a> will go directly to <div id="section-name"> if it exists.
Here's an example
Read: HTML Anchors with 'name' or 'id'?
A typical anchor tag works as follows:
A href link tag is written like so:
Jump to a001
See the #a001 above? That is referencing an id in the HTML page, and it will jump to it if you click this link.
To provide an example of how this id that we would jump to might look on a page, look below.
<li id="a001">text here</li>
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