Mozilla Composer: Create Internal Links

• Review • Internal Links • Anchors • Create an Anchor • Create a Link to an Anchor •

Review

A hyperlink is a direct connection from the current location of the cursor to another location.

You can create an absolute hyperlink to another web site.

You can create a relative hyperlink to another document within your own web site.

You can create a mailto hyperlink to an email message preaddressed to whoever you designate.

Internal Links

You can also create an internal hyperlink to another position in your current document.

For example, you may want to place a hyperlink at the bottom of a web page that will take the visitor back up to the top of that same web page.

Or you might want to provide a short table of the contents of a particular web page and link each item in the table of contents to the exact position farther down on the web page where the discussion of that item begins.

Anchors

When we create this internal hyperlink we are hyperlinking to a place on the web page that is variously referred to as a bookmark, a marker, a target, or an anchor

Netscape Composer uses the term named anchor .

Create an Anchor

To create an internal link, first create the anchor. Position your cursor on the page location you want your visitors to leap to when they click on the hyperlink.

Using our first example--a hyperlink at the bottom of a page to allow visitors to jump directly back to the top of that same page--we would position our cursor next to a word in the first line of the page.

To create a named anchor at a location in a web page, position your cursor at the place on the page where you want your visitor to jump to.

Choose Insert, Named Anchor from the Main Menu. The Named Anchor Properties dialog box will appear.

Type in the name of your anchor. In the case of the above example of creating an anchor at the top of the page, I use the name top. Click on OK.

A little anchor symbol will appear on your web page at the location you designated.

Create a Link to an Anchor

Now you will need to create a hyperlink to the anchor.

Highlight the clickable text. In the case of our example, I would use some text at the bottom of the page that says Top of Page.
Click on the Link button on the composition toolbar.
The Link Properties dialog box will appear.

Click on the dropdown box and choose the anchor name from the list displayed.

Click on OK.

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