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Creating and Hyperlinking to Anchors
An anchor is a marker within an HTML document, roughly analogous to a bookmark in
a Word document. You define a specific location in the document with an anchor name,
and then you can hyperlink directly to that anchor.
Anchors are most valuable in long documents with multiple sections. They provide a
means for users to jump directly to whatever section they want rather than having to
read or scroll through the entire document. You can do this internally by creating a list
of hyperlinks at the top of the document, or you can do this externally by including an
anchor name in a hyperlink to another document. There are two parts to the process:
you mark the anchor location, and then you create a hyperlink that refers to it.
To define an anchor, create an tag around the destination text and include a name
attribute. For example, suppose you have a heading that reads Conclusion, and you want
to create an anchor point with that same name:
Conclusion