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Getting a link to go to a specific section on another page

I have a link on one page that needs to go to a different page, but load to a specific section on that other page.

I have done this before with bootstrap but they take all the 'coding' out of it, so I need to know how to do from scratch. Here is the markup I have based on this link (not the best resource, I know): http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp

**Page One**
<a href="/academics/page.html#timeline> Click here </a>
**Page I am linking to**
<div id="timeline" name="timeline"> ... </div>

Can I do this with just HTML, or do I need some JavaScript? If I need to do it via JS, it needs to be on the target page, right?

Solution

  • I believe the example you've posted is using HTML5, which allows you to jump to any DOM element with the matching ID attribute. To support older browsers, you'll need to change:

    <div id="timeline" name="timeline" ...>

    To the old format:

    <a name="timeline" />

    You'll then be able to navigate to /academics/page.html#timeline and jump right to that section.

    Also, check out this similar question.