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Intrapage Linking

Intrapage linking enables you to have a link in a document that will automatically go to another location within the same document. This is achieved by creating a link to the location using an octothorpe (#) followed by a relevant name, and then defining the location using an anchor element and the name attribute with that name.

You can use as many such links in a document as is reasonable to achieve your goals. This technique is most helpful for navigating very long documents (see Example 2-15).

Example 2-15. Setting up intrapage links

<p><a href="#news">Go to the News</a></p><h1>Welcome</h1><p>This paragraph welcomes you.</p><h2>About</h2><p>This paragraph talks about us.</p><h2><a name="news">News</a></h2><p>This is the section your link will go to.</p> ...