HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
For instance, use your home pagethe leading document of the collectio-
nas a master index full of brief descriptions and respective hyperlinks to
the rest of your collection.
You can also use either the
name
variant of the
<a>
tag or the
id
attribute
of nearly all tags to specially identify sections of your document. Tag
id
s
and
name
anchors serve as internal hyperlink targets in your documents
to help users easily navigate within the same document or jump to a
particular section within another document. Refer to that
id
'd section in
a hyperlink by appending a pound sign (
#
) and the section name as the
suffix to the URL.
For instance, to reference a specific topic in an archive, such as "Kum-
quat Stew Recipes" in our example Kumquat Archive, first mark the sec-
tion title with an
id
:
...preceding content...
<h3 id="Stews">Kumquat Stew Recipes</h3>
in the same or another document, then prepare a source hyperlink that
points directly to those recipes by including the section's
id
value as a
suffix to the document's URL, separated by a pound sign:
For more information on kumquats, visit our
<a href="http://www.kumquat.com/archive.html">
Kumquat Archive</a>,
and perhaps try one or two of our
<a href="http://www.kumquat.com/archive.html#Stews">
Kumquat Stew Recipes</a>.
If selected by the user, the latter hyperlink causes the browser to down-
load the
archive.html
document and start the display at our "Stews" sec-
tion.
