With HTML 4, you can create a name anchor on a web page using HTML code in the form shown below:
<a name="some_name">Some Text</a>
For instance if I had a long webpage, mypage.html, and I wanted
to be able to use a link that pointed not to the top of the page but to
a specific location in the page, I would use the name attribute to create an
"anchor" on the page with HTML 4. E.g., suppose I broke the page into
sections and I wanted to create a link to section 3; I could use code
such as that shown below:
<a name="section3">Section 3</a>
In the above example, section3 is the name of the anchor. I
could put a link in another webpage pointing to section 3 on the above
page using the following HTML code:
<a href="http://example.com/mypage.html#section3">
However with HTML5, use of name anchors on a web page has been deprecated. E.g., if you check your HTML code for adherence to the HTML 5 standard with the Nu Html Checker provided by the World Wide Web Consortium, you will see a warning similar to the following one displayed if you use the name attribute to specify the name of an anchor on a page.
The name attribute is obsolete. Consider putting an
id
attribute on the nearest container instead.
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<h3><a name="creating_db">Creati
You can achieve the same effect, but make your HTML code HTML 5 compliant
by using a unique id for an element using id. E.g.:
<h3 id="creating_db">Creating Dtabases and Tables</h3>
Or you can even simply substitute "id=" where "name=" appeared:
<h3><id="creating_db">Creating Databases and Tables</a></h3>
E.g., I could use
http://support.moonpoint.com/software/database/sqlite/using.php#creating_db
to jump to the spot on the page where I inserted the
id="creating_db", or, if I put references at the end of a
webpage, I could use the following for a reference:
I could then link to it from within the page itself using the following HTML code:
