Many people don't know what anchor are, and how they work. In this tutorial I will show you through examples how they work.

What is an anchor?
An anchor consists out of two things, a point and a link. An anchor point is a place in your content where you want to link to. People also call it "page content jumpers", because it jumps to another part of the page.

Take the following page: My school page.

You'll see a list of subjects, and answers beneath it. The links are anchor links, and it sends you to the anchor point. This is a working example of an anchor.

How do you make anchors?

It's actually quite simple, take a look at the following example:

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1 2 3 4 5	<a href="#anchor">Anchorlink</a>   <!-- Some content bla bla -->   <a name="anchor">Anchorpoint</a>

The first line (Anchorlink) is the link to the anchor called "anchor". Note that you always add a "#" before the name, or else it won't work. I assume the rest of the tag speaks for itself.

The second line (Anchorpoint) is the point. Just add the name of the anchor in the name="..." attribute. So this is the place the link will send you to. Note that this time you don't add a "#" before the name.

One little anchor example:

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Well that was easy right?