Is it possible to make a shortcut go down to the part I want it to through a link even if there are no nearby elements with IDs? I have tried this so far:
<a href="http://example.com/#+200px">Go down 200 pixels</a>
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One requirement is that I do not have access to the website I am linking to, it is external entirely. My question is, is the only thing the anchor tag (or similar) can do is scroll to an element with a specific id? For example: this currently works: https://stackoverflow.com#footer because stackoverflow's footer has an id of footer.
But what if no id's exist on any nearby elements.
Answers with other frameworks are welcome, although likely irrelevant.
There is unfortunately no parameter to put into a link pointing to another website that would make a browser scroll the page to a given position after opening it.
Programmatically it cannot be done either as a website doesn't have any access to websites on other domains. (Even loading the external resource into an iframe or popup wouldn't help as Same-origin policy still prevents you to make any changes to it. See the comments under this answer to a similar question.)