An Anchor URL

[niche]

I don't understand what's meant by an anchor URL as in: An anchor URL - points to an anchor within a page (like href="#top") (http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_href.asp).What's an anchor and how is it used?Thanks

[Synook]

An anchor is an element defined by the <a> tag. If you give an anchor an ID (or a name, for older browsers), you can set up another anchor to link to that part of the page using the hash symbol. For example, if you had:

<a id="anchor"></a>

Then you link to the part of the page with that tag using:

<a href="#anchor">Click here</a>

[niche]

Sounds like that might come in handy if you have a long page and want to move around quickly as in a page has 50 chapters and each chapter is an anchor where navigation linked to 50 different anchors .Right ?

[Synook]

Yes... but you may want to just split that up into multiple pages anyway, or else loading times will be horrible.

[niche]

Thanks for your help Synook.

[thescientist]

you don't have to necessarily use ID on an <a> tag. Any element can be given an ID, and thus linked inpage.