a element anchor

[jimfog]

I want to make a link that besides going to a specific page, it must also go to a specific point in that page. How can I do that? In both cases it will be an href attribute, but how am I going to combine these 2 together?

[birbal]

add a named anchor in that page<a name="point"> on the other page give the acnhor name in link<a href="page.php#point">

Edited October 11, 2012 by birbal

[thescientist]

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp

[Ingolme]

There's no name attribute for the <a> element. The #hash part of the URL targets any element that has an ID matching the #hash value.

[birbal]

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_name.asp looks like html5 has obsolete it.

[Ingolme]

http://www.w3schools.../att_a_name.asp looks like html5 has obsolete it.

It was already deprecated in HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 Strict.

[jimfog]

There's no name attribute for the <a> element. The #hash part of the URL targets any element that has an ID matching the #hash value.

So you are saying this is the method to follow to achieve what i want.

[dsonesuk]

Yes! as birbal suggested but using id attribute instead of name attribute. Note, if you link to a point near the of bottom of page, which may contain a few lines of content only, you may get the impression its not working, but remember, it can only only go as far as the very bottom edge of page, and not the norm of showing the point you linked to at the top of page. So it may be better to place larger content, if possible, to point to at bottom of page to avoid this.

[jimfog]

This hash part/id attribute trick...is it brought by HTML5 or is being around even before HTML5? It is the first time i hear of it.

[Ingolme]

No, the hash part of the URL's relation to the ID has been standard for a decade at least.

[jimfog]

No, the hash part of the URL's relation to the ID has been standard for a decade at least.

Well, I am surprised to hear that. Then what is the point in using name attributes in the first place?I am talking about the period before HTML5 comes and renders it obsolete.

[Ingolme]

The name attribute was used to identify elements in Netscape and old versions of Internet Explorer.

[dsonesuk]

The name attribute is more restricted to form input elements, as the name attribute can be used multiple times for radio, checkboxes etc whereas a id reference must be unique within a page. the name attribute was even removed from the form element itself, in preference for a id ref instead.