Question

I am writing a help page with sections. What I want to do is allow navigation to a particular section (depending on what page the user clicked help from) rather than always landing at the top of the page.

My web app is written in ASP.NET; can anyone point me in the direction of how to set this up? Thanks!

Answer 1

You should use “bookmarks” for this… for example:

<a href="yourpage.aspx#Help">Help</a>

Will take you to the following “bookmark” on the yourpage.aspx page…

<a id="Help"></a>

Update! The name attribute should not be used for this, as per the W3C HTML5 recommendation.

Authors should not specify the name attribute on a elements. If the
attribute is present, its value must not be the empty string and must
neither be equal to the value of any of the IDs in the element’s home
subtree other than the element’s own ID, if any, nor be equal to the
value of any of the other name attributes on a elements in the
element’s home subtree. If this attribute is present and the element
has an ID, then the attribute’s value must be equal to the element’s
ID. In earlier versions of the language, this attribute was intended
as a way to specify possible targets for fragment identifiers in URLs.
The id attribute should be used instead.