How to use anchors

[koocw]

How do you use anchors? I think they are links to the same webpage and have something to do with the # character, but what is the exact HTML?

Any examples would be greatly appreciated.

[onemoren]

Yes anchors can be used as links to the same page. But in general they are links to a specific line in any page. That means if you click a link like this

<a href="page.html#anchorname">goto foo on page</a>

your browser will take you to page.html and automatically scroll down to the line where the anchor is defined by

<a name="anchorname">foo</a>

More information ... [w3.org]

[pmkpmk]

Actually I think the usage via ID-tags is the more commonly used. The linking stays the same:

<a href="page.html#anchorname">goto foo on page</a> 

but the target does not need to be in an <a></a> tag but can be ANY tag. Examples:

<H1 id="anchorname">foo</H1> 
<P id="anchorname">foo</P> 
<TABLE id="anchorname">table stuff in here</TABLE>