From time to time you may want to allow people to jump up and down your page, like this – Jump Down! Cool huh? It’s also very easy to do.
- Create your page. I find it easier to add all the anchors in at the end because this way it’s easier for me to see where they will be suitable.
- Identify two anchor points. The first anchor point you want to identify is the starting position – the initial link (like Jump Down! above). The other point is the location, or destination once the first point is clicked.
- Add in the code! Using my Jump Down! example, the code is <a href=”#jumpdown“>Jump Down!</a>. Here you can see the first part starting with # is the location or destination, and the second part is just the text you see as a link where visitors will click.
- Now you have the initial link created, you will want to add in the destination it should go to. If you don’t do this, it won’t go anywhere, much like this: I forgot step 3!. The code for this is <a name=”jumpdown“></a>. Remember to make sure the name is set to the same name you requested after the # in step 3. If you want to put some text in there, you can. Just add it here - <a name=”jumpdown”>Welcome to the bottom!</a>or here. If you don’t add this text, your anchor point will be invisible.
Quick Tip – If you are using WordPress, when adding in the code make sure you are working in the HTML editor tab! If you use this code in the Visual tab it wont work. You can check what tab you are in by looking at the top right corner of the text editing box, although if you are a WordPress user you will be familiar with this.
Welcome to the bottom! – Here you can see I have added text to the anchor as mentioned in step 4, but inside the brackets so it looks like a link.
