linking to a named anchor

[Brendon Branigin]

say somone is on index and i want them to be on the habitat section of the resources page (habitat is a anchor). what would the url look like?

[scott100]

<a href="resources.htm#habitat">visit habitat</a>

you would also have to put name="habitat" somewhere on your resources page (not the top or you wont see the effect)

[Brendon Branigin]

thanks scott

[Err]

<a href="resources.htm#habitat">visit habitat</a>

you would also have to put name="habitat" somewhere on your resources page (not the top or you wont see the effect)

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I thought the right way was always id="habitat", it still works the same though.

[Brendon Branigin]

interesting, can somone confirm this? i dont want to develop any more bad habbits ;/ breaking away from table layouts was hard enough.

[scott100]

erm, yeah Rah is right you should use id, but see quotes below, both should be used in meantime.XHTML

The id Attribute Replaces The name Attribute

Note: To interoperate with older browsers for a while, you should use both name and id, with identical attribute values

[Err]

Found it! Here we go:

"Note that in XHTML 1.0, the name attribute of these elements is formally deprecated, and will be removed in a subsequent version of XHTML."

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.10http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_8Edit: Yup, scott is right, you should mean while use both of them together.