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

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Hiii

you can simply use

 <a href="directry/filename.html#section5" >click me</a>

to link to a section/id of another page by

Answer 3

I tried the above answer - using page.html#ID_name it gave me a 404 page doesn't exist error.

Then instead of using .html, I simply put a slash / before the # and that worked fine. So my example on the sending page between the link tags looks like:

<a href= "http://my website.com/target-page/#El_Chorro">El Chorro</a>

Just use / instead of .html.

Answer 4

To link from a page to another section just use

<a href="index.php#firstdiv">my first div</a>