Anchors
An anchor is a named zone in your website that allows you to jump from once place to another within a page or to a specific place on another page in your website.
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- Place your cursor before the section of content in which you want to create your anchor. For example: You can place your cursor at the beginning of your content which will create an anchor back to the start of that piece of content.
- Click the Anchor icon on the Editor Toolbar.
- ANCHOR NAME: Enter your anchor name in the Anchor properties dialog box. For example: "top".
- Click the "OK" button to close the Anchor Properties dialog box.
- Go to the section of content in which you want to create your link. For example: You may have a section of words that says, "Back to Top." Highlight these words.
- Click the Insert/Edit Link icon on the Editor Toolbar.
- LINK TYPE: Anchor in this page.
- SELECT AN ANCHOR: Locate and select your anchor name in the "By Anchor Name" drop down list.
- Click OK to insert your link or Cancel to exit the Insert/Edit Link dialog box.
- Click the Save icon in the upper right corner of the screen to save your work.
- Open the destination page and place your cursor before the section of content in which you want to create your anchor.
- Click the Anchor icon on the Editor Toolbar.
- ANCHOR NAME: Enter your anchor name in the Anchor properties dialog box.
- Click the "OK" button to close the Anchor Properties dialog box.
- Navigate to your original page and go to the section of content in which you want to create your link. Highlight the words you want to be linked.
- Click the Insert/Edit Link icon on the Editor Toolbar.
- LINK TYPE: Select URL from the drop down menu.
- PROTOCOL: Select the appropriate protocol from the drop down menu. Most of the time you will choose http://.
- URL: Type the address of the page containing the anchor. Make sure that page has a shortcut. An example of this URL is as follows: www.domainname.com/pageshortcutname/#anchorname
Note: The URL must have the "#" sign just before the anchor name in order for the link to work as intended.