AOLPress - Creating Anchors in Your Page

Anchors

Anchors are useful for moving to a specific point in a page or separate page. This process is completed in two stages, firstly you create the anchor which is invisible to the user and then you create a link to it.

Inserting the anchor - place the cursor at the place and select anchor from the elements menu, the following popup window appears, type a name for the anchor and click Ok.

Now move to where the link is to be inserted, type the link name i.e. 'Top of Page' and highlight it , then select the link icon or link from the elements menu, if the link is for an anchor in the same page then only put the anchor name in the the second box and click OK

Which results in

NOTE: Target Frame is only required if you are working with Frames.

Linking to an anchor in a different page

This is a useful technique if you wish to refer someone to a specific point in a different page. It is accomplished by following the same procedure as above but the anchor you will be linking to will be in the second document. First insert the anchor in the second document. Then insert your link in the first document the difference being that this time you will be filling in the 'Link to Page' and the 'Append Anchor Name' boxes. See next picture

The HTML Code looks like this: <a href="another_page.htm#top">Anchor link to Another Page</a>