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HTML HTML Basics Going Further with HTML Linking to Sections of a Web Page

Ryan Wilson
Ryan Wilson
3,654 Points
Posted by Ryan Wilson
Ryan Wilson
3,654 Points

Can someone please explain why we use the '#' symbol. href="articles/2017/article.html#vr-article"

href="articles/2017/article.html#vr-article" After .html here

Thank you in advance. Ryan

1 Answer

Alex Life
Alex Life
16,114 Points
Alex Life
Alex Life
16,114 Points

The # points to a specific spot in the HTML so you can skip to a certain section of a long page, the part after the # needs to be the id of an HTML element also, so it knows exactly where to skip to since ids should be unique.

Ryan Wilson
Ryan Wilson
3,654 Points
Ryan Wilson
Ryan Wilson
3,654 Points

Thank you, that’s great. Take care.

Ubo Town
Ubo Town
3,227 Points

very good, tks.