What's the best way to handcode anchors in HTML?

Give the element you want to link to an id attribute and create a link like this:

<a href="#someSection">This is the link text.</a> //This might link to:

<h2 id="someSection">This is a header!!<h2>

 

Also, if you place the #insertidname at the end of a hyperlink, the browser will automatically move to that part once the page has loaded.

Tried that but the software I'm using didn't consider the link valid.

Tried that but the software I'm using didn't consider the link valid.

Sorry, I didn't close the h2 tag properly. >.<

Edited July 30, 201115 yr by Sam Lockyer

Doesn't seem to make much difference.

You can anchor to *any* html element that has an id in it.

Also, if the link to the anchor doesn't have sufficient vertical space between it and the id being anchored to, you won't see any noticeable difference in the page - iow, the page won't 'jump' to the anchor.