Websites that use #tag to focus on a part of a page

[RankUpGamers]

I've seen many websites use this, and I've used it in the past. I am using my school's crappy builder tools and only have HTML access to specific parts of the page, and my old style of doing it won't work. Does anyone know of a tutorial, because google didn't seem to offer up any ideas. Thanks!

[random314]

Do you mean HTML anchors? They're used to link to a specific part of the page. You make them like this:

<a name="whatever"></a><p>Some important piece of content</p>

and make links that reference them like this:

Click <a href="#whatever">here</a> to go to some important piece of content

[colonel_mortis]

I haven't seen name used before, but id also works

<div id="anchor"><a href="#anchor">When you click this it will jump to the top of the div</a></div><a href="#anchor">It doesn't have to be within the div to work either</a>

[random314]

 

I haven't seen name used before, but id also works

 

 

You are right, you should probably use id, even though name will work. I had a bit of a brain fart and just took what was written on the page I linked to as correct

[Stormsys]

The <a name method was the original way of achieving this! however if you scroll down here (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/484719/html-anchors-with-name-or-id?lq=1) you can see the algorithm used for this behaviour in the HTML 5 spec. Bare in mind that the spec is unfinalized and may not work across all browsers.

[Tigerbomb8]

Use can use ids to do this.. 

e.g 

<div id="idtag"></div>

<p id="anotherid"></p>

 

A good example in on the wiki page for computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer. They have made a span with the id "History_of_computing"

So going to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#History_of_computing will scroll you down to the span.