Link to an element within the current page

Question

I created a HTML page with a number of tables with headers like this: Content, Main_Page, Document, Expenses, etc.

I want to create a link for the top of the page. When I click that link it should go to the specific section. So I use the below code to map the content. But it's not working for me.

<a href="#Content">Content Section</a>

Answer 1

You need to create an anchor for the link. The modern way of doing this is to give the appropriate element an id="Content" attribute. The older way of doing this was to use <a name="Content"></a>.

Answer 2

Give the element you want to 'jump' to a clear ID, like so:

<p id="idOfTag">Your content goes here</p>

Then in the link on the top of the page, make it refer to the id of that element (mind the #):

<a href="#idOfTag">Jump</a>

Full example with multiple links:

<ul>
  <li><a href="#contentParagraph">Content</a></li>
  <li><a href="#mainPageParagraph">Main page</a></li>
  <li><a href="#documentParagraph">Document</a></li>
  <li><a href="#expensesParagraph">Expenses</a></li>
</ul>
<p id="contentParagraph">
  <h4>Content</h4>
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor
  in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
</p>
<p id="mainPageParagraph">
  <h4>Main page</h4>
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor
  in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
</p>
<p id="documentParagraph">
  <h4>Document</h4>
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor
  in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
</p>
<p id="expensesParagraph">
  <h4>Expenses</h4>
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor
  in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
</p>

Answer 3

You can use name attribute for your anchor tag to achieve this.

Let say you have a div with id content

<div id="content">This is my div</div>

Next make sure you have a anchor tag with name attribute same as the id of the div content

<a href="#" name="content">Click to go to the top</a>

Live Demo.

Scroll down to see the link

Another approach to do this would be

<div id="content">My div</div>

Then your anchor tag's href should be #content

<a href="#content">Click to go to top</a>

Live Demo.

Answer 4

Looks like the question has been answered but if you wanted to use a scrolling effect when transitioning to those elements here a little JS snipt. $(function() {

    function filterPath(string) {
        return string
        .replace(/^\//,'')
        .replace(/(index|default).[a-zA-Z]{3,4}$/,'')
        .replace(/\/$/,'');
    }

    var locationPath = filterPath(location.pathname);
    var scrollElem = scrollableElement('html', 'body');

    // Any links with hash tags in them (can't do ^= because of fully qualified URL potential)
    $('a[href*=#]').each(function() {

        // Ensure it's a same-page link
        var thisPath = filterPath(this.pathname) || locationPath;
        if (  locationPath == thisPath
            && (location.hostname == this.hostname || !this.hostname)
            && this.hash.replace(/#/,'') ) {

                // Ensure target exists
                var $target = $(this.hash), target = this.hash;
                if (target) {

                    // Find location of target
                    var targetOffset = $target.offset().top;
                    $(this).click(function(event) {

                        // Prevent jump-down
                        event.preventDefault();

                        // Animate to target
                        $(scrollElem).animate({scrollTop: targetOffset}, 2000, function() {

                            // Set hash in URL after animation successful
                            location.hash = target;

                        });
                    });
                }
        }

    });

    // Use the first element that is "scrollable"  (cross-browser fix?)
    function scrollableElement(els) {
        for (var i = 0, argLength = arguments.length; i <argLength; i++) {
            var el = arguments[i],
            $scrollElement = $(el);
            if ($scrollElement.scrollTop()> 0) {
                return el;
            } else {
                $scrollElement.scrollTop(1);
                var isScrollable = $scrollElement.scrollTop()> 0;
                $scrollElement.scrollTop(0);
                if (isScrollable) {
                    return el;
                }
            }
        }
        return [];
    }

});