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Using named anchors

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Using named anchors

While linking to other pages is usually the norm, there are times when you need to link to places within the same page. Usability is an important consideration when designing websites. Although, people will generally tolerate scrolling okay if you can give them away to skip the scrolling and jump right to the information that they're looking for, they're going to be much happier users of your site. Well, that's where named anchors come in. Well, named anchors are aptly named, because instead of the way that the HREF attribute is normally resolved, links to named anchors reference instead an ID value allowing you to link to any element on the page that has a specific ID attribute. Let's see how we can use that to enhance our navigation on the Frequently Asked Questions page, just to kind of show you give me an idea of what we were talking about here. I'm going to and preview this page in a browser. Well, you can see that we have a lot of questions here and it takes a little bit of time…

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