Herself’s Webtools

This is one of those HTML things I rarely use.  So I always have to go hunt to figure out how to use when I need them. Anchor links bring you to a section of a document. Let’s say you have this huge list of links. You don’t want to dump someone at the top of a long list that is sorted by subject when you can send them straight to that subject area. Or if you have written the Great American Novel all on one page, you could provide anchor links to individual chapters.

In the long page you create anchors:

<a name=”chapterone”>Chapter One</a>

To send someone straight to Chapter One create this link:

<a href=”http://greatamericannovel.com/index.html#chapterone”> Great American Novel: Chapter One</a>

I use them on the category links to your left. Click on a category link and it will take you to the anchor link for that category on the very large archives page.