Dreamweaver Tutorial: Using a Named Anchor to Link Within a Document

This Dreamweaver tutorial will demonstrate how to create named anchors and create links within a Web page and to a specific location in another web page.

There are times when you're creating Web pages that you will need to create a link that goes to another place within the same document or to a specific location in another Web page. This is especially true for long web pages that require scrolling to locate specific places far down the page. For some long pages it helps to put an index of the page at the top of the page that links to information further down the page. When the user clicks on a link to move down the page there are usually links to get back up to the top of the page. This is accomplished through the use of named anchors.

In order to link to a specific location within a document, the destination page needs to contain a marker called a named anchor. If you know what the named anchor is called, you can create a link to it. A named anchor is designated by the filename.html#anchorname if it is in the same Web page as the link. See the code example below.

<href="frequentquestions.html#quest16.html">Question 16: How does one create a named anchor?</a>

Named anchors are commonly used for long alphabetized or indexed lists, such as an index, a glossary, or a list of frequently asked questions. INstead of requiring users to scroll through the entire list of questions, you can create a list of the questions at the top of the page that link to the location in the page containing the answer to the specific question.

Dreamweaver Tutorial: Link to a Specific Place in a Document

Click in the Web page where you want the named anchor should go. Click on the Insert menu and then Named Anchor from the drop-down menu.

Another way to create a named anchor is to click on the Common Insert Panel and choose the Named Anchor icon. Click on the anchor and the named anchor dialog box will appear.

In the Named Anchor dialog box, place the cursor in the text field and type in the name of the anchor.

Once the named anchors are created, you can then link to them like you would any other web page. In this case you are linking to the same page, but to a specific location on the page. This page is named dw8.html. In order to create a link to the specific anchor within the page the link would include a pound sign at the end of the file name plus the name of the named anchor. See the sample code for the link below.

<a href="dw8.html#rss">RSS Tutorials</a>

The anchor icons that are created in the Web page represent the named anchors, which are invisible Web page elements. The icons are useful so that you can see that the anchors are there. To turn off the icons so they aren't visible, you can click on the Document Toolbar and then click on Invisible Elements to hide the anchor icons.

View the multimedia Dreamweaver tutorial below to see exactly how to create links within the Web page using the named anchors.

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