What are Anchor Links?
Anchor links are useful tool on websites, especially when a web page contains a lot of text on a single page. These links, which may sometimes also be called internal links or page jumps, allow people to click on highlighted text and jump to another part of the page. They can be created fairly easily with some simple coding, and they help improve navigation on a web page. Many times when people have large single pages they’ll create a page index or table of contents. The index at the top is a perfect place to add anchor links, so that each index entry becomes its own jumping point to another part of the page. This allows people viewing the webpage to click on the index or table of contents section and move immediately to access the material they want, instead of having to scan through numerous sections. Anchor links are commonly user and tend to be preferred by sophisticated Internet users who want to get to applicable material as quickly as possible. There are numerous ways to create
Jen Kidder: Anchor links allow you to create a link to an exact location within a document. They are similar to document links, but now you can take users to the exact location within a document where you want them to be, rather than just to the document itself. What about Dynamic HTML? Bill Andreas: It works and without requiring a Ph.D. One of the things we do really well is make it easy to do what people are now calling Dynamic HTML, only it’s so easy you don’t even know you’re doing it. A good example of something a lot of people are trying to do is construct a page that is different depending on things like user preferences and security, or time of day, so you can, say, make the advertising change on your site. They’re also called active server pages, but we just call them Notes documents. It’s very easy to do with Notes Designer. You just select some text and say “Show this when Fred is on the site.” That’s one big thing that Web site developers are having to deal with that is ju
