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NWE Help: Web: Authoring: HTML: Anchors
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Anchors allow you to add internal links to your documents. Internal links are useful for pages that have several parts, each of which you might want to link to directly*. (See an example of a page with internal links.)
Place an anchor
First, you need to place an anchor tag at the spot you want to link to. Your anchor tag should look like this:
<A NAME="link">Click here</A>
- Notice that the attribute in the anchor tag is NAME.
Make your link
Next, you need to make a link that points to this anchor. You can do this in two ways. The first is an internal link, a link on the same page. An internal link looks like this:
<A HREF="#link">Click here</A>
- Notice that the link uses the text you put in the NAME attribute, only with a hash mark ( # ) in front.
If you want to point to an anchor tag in another document, you can do so by adding the link to the end of the normal link, like this:
<A HREF="linking.shtml#link">Click here</A>
Once you've made your anchor and your link, you're ready to use your internal links.
* The HTML code on this page is represented in Blue to make it easier to read.