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Part II
Designing and Crafting Basic Pages
Moving within the same document
One of the major advantages of using named anchors is the almost instantaneous response viewers
receive when they link to named anchors from the same page. The browser just scrolls to the partic-
ular place in the document because the entire page is already loaded. For long text documents, this
capability is an invaluable timesaver.
After you have placed a named anchor in your document, you can link to the anchor. You can create
more than one named anchor in your document before adding links to the anchors. To create a link
to a named anchor in the same document, follow these steps:
1. Select the text or image that you want to designate as a link.
2. In the Link text box of the Properties panel, type a hash mark (#) followed by the exact
anchor name:
#start
Remember that anchor names are case-sensitive and must be unique in each document.
Place the named anchor one line above the heading or image to which you want to link
the viewer. Browsers tend to be quite literal. If you place the named anchor on the same
line, the browser renders it against the top of the window. Placing your named anchor up one line gives
your topic a bit of breathing room in the display.
In Dreamweaver, you can also use the Point to File icon to choose a named anchor link. If your
named anchor is in the same document, just drag t ...