Expression® Web Design
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Creating an Anchor or Bookmark
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Frontpage and Expression Web will allow you to easily create destinations in a web page. These are called anchors.To create an anchor / bookmark in Frontpage, locate the area that you which to direct users to and press CNTL-G (or Insert - Bookmark). A dialog box will come up and you will enter a name. For example, if you are on a Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) page and one of the FAQs is Why Us?, you might name the anchor why.
In the source code, you will see:
<a name="why"></a>
Now to create a link to this bookmark / anchor, highlight the word(s) you wish, and press CNTL-K (or Insert - Hyperlink). In the dialog box that opens, you will see a few choices on the left side: Existing File or Web Page, Place in this Document, Create a New Document, or E-mail Address. Choose Place in this Document and you should see the bookmark(s) / anchor(s) that you have created. Choose why and hit the OK button. In the source code, you should see something like
<a href="#why">Why Us</a>
You can also link directly to an anchor from another page. For example, let's say that the FAQ page is called about.html. And you want to have a hyperlink that goes right to the why section on the FAQ. The source code would look something like
<a href="about.html#why">Why Us</a>
For more information, please see syntax of anchor names. You can also see an on-screen demonstration of how to create an anchor or bookmark in Frontpage.
