An anchor marks the beginning and/or end of a hypertext link. It is used to link to other pages or sites, other sections within the same webpage or any other file, such as a sound file, zip archive, etc.
This allows
An anchor marks the beginning and/or end of a hypertext link. It is used to link to other pages or sites, other sections within the same webpage or any other file, such as a sound file, zip archive, etc.
This allows the anchor to be the destination of a link. This means you can direct a link elsewhere to a specific part of a document.
<A NAME="bgsound">Background Sound</A>
Use this to tell the browser where you wish a link to lead. This can be used for links to elsewhere in the document (as defined using the
NAME attribute), to remote locations, or to a destination within a remote document. The live area will be any text and images located between the tags.
This link takes you to the <A HREF="http://www.ctcc.gov.za/ccchome.html">Cape Town <IMG SRC="graphics/cape_sm.jpg"></A> home page. The border around the graphic indicates that it is a link.
Check out this document's section on <A HREF="#bgsound">Background Sound.</A>
This link takes you to <A HREF="slate/mitch.htm#dan">Dan's bit</A> of my Hurricane Mitch page.
<A HREF="sounds/blakmeat.wav">"I think its time..."</A> [Sound file 63K]
This link takes you to the Cape Town home page. The border around the graphic indicates that it is a link.
Check out this document's section on Backgr