[bcab] Re: html coding

Hi,
Thanks to everyone for the previous help on this subject.

I've another question now, how would I code a link to another page so that it 
lands exactly on the content within that page that I want to direct it to?


Thanks once more

Colin Fowler

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Léonie Watson 
  To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:01 PM
  Subject: [bcab] Re: html coding


      This is just the place for these kind of questions. I know others have 
suggested other lists, so I'll jump straight to some code examples instead.

      There are two parts to a skip link:

  - The skip link itself.
  - The place on the page that it leads to.

      The code to create the skip link looks like this:

  <a href="#content">Skip to content</a>

      It looks like a normal link, except that it doesn't include a web address 
within the href="". Instead, it uses a hash sign followed by the word content.

      The hash sign is important. That's the part that informs the browser that 
the destination of the link is on the same page, not a different page 
altogether.

      The code to indicate the destination of the link is always used in 
conjunction with another HTML tag. On its own, it looks like this:

  id="content"

      For example, you may have a heading at the start of your content area. If 
so, the above bit of code would be used like this:

  <h1 id="content">Welcome to my website</h1>

      Alternatively, you may want the link to lead to the first paragraph in 
your content. The code would look like this:

  <p id="content">This is the first paragraph of text in my content...</p>

      There are two useful things to remember about this technique:

  1. The word after the hash sign in the skip link, and the word inside the 
id="", should match exactly.
  2. Each id="" on a page should be unique, in part to prevent multiple skip 
links on the same page from getting scrambled.

      Hope this all makes sense. Let me know if you need any more information.

  Léonie.

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  From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of Colin Fowler
  Sent: 08 January 2009 13:38
  To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [bcab] html coding



  Hello,

  I am a newby at this, so please cut me some slack.
  Does anyone have the html tag for a skip to main content link please?

  If anyone knows of a better E mail list for me to be directing my enquiries 
to, I would be grateful for that signposting.

  Thanks

  Colin



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