anchor

[Nusja]

Hi, does anybody know why an anchor could be visible?<a href="#estonian">See the text in Estonian</a><a name="estonian"></a>Tere! Minu nimi on Niina. Mina olen kakskummend neli aastat vana. <p>My anchor shows on my page. Thanks!!!

[actionsketch]

you should take an HTML tutorial.

[Nusja]

I did and I followed the instructions.

[dain]

try this:

<a href="#estonian">See the text in Estonian</a><a id="estonian"><p>Tere! Minu nimi on Niina. Mina olen kakskummend neli aastat vana. </p></a>

I always put something inside the anchor tag, and i changed the name attribute to id so its XHTML compatibledain

[F-Man]

<p><a href="#estonian">See the text in Estonian</a></p><p id="estonian">Tere! Minu nimi on Niina. Mina olen kakskummend neli aastat vana. </p>

Fixed.I don't understand why people always put the link destination inside an achor. If your anchor doesn't have a href, then it shouldn't be an achor at all.

[dain]

if there's more than one bookmark in a paragraph, you cant use <p> or you'd separate the text. Why shouldn't <a> be used for bookmarking?dain

[F-Man]

if there's more than one bookmark in a paragraph,

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

In which case you'd do this:

<p>In this paragraph we have two "bookmarks". <span id="bm1">Here is the first</span> and <span id="bm2">here is the second.</span>. This paragraph is very weird because internal links usually don't bring you to the same place.</p>

Though bookmarks usually tend to be paragraphs or headings.<a> shouldn't be used cause it's purpose is to make a link. Something which isn't clickable to go somewhere else isn't a link.

[dain]

gotcha thanks for the tipdain