Anchors (also known as bookmarks) are especially helpful for web pages with lots of content. They save web users the time it would take to keep scrolling down to find the content they’re looking for. Instead, sections of the content can be anchored, or "bookmarked," so that web users can jump right to those anchor points from links at the top of the page.
To create anchors, you must have your content open in edit mode. Follow this process:
- Determine what you want to anchor. Typically, it would be the headings for each section of your content.
- Place the cursor at the beginning of that subhead, or other text, and click on the Anchor icon (
). The “Anchor” screen will come up.
- Enter a name for the anchor and click on the OK button.
- Repeat this process for as many items as you wish to anchor.
- To link to the anchors, create text near the top of the page that you want the site user to click on to jump to the anchors. This could be an alphabetical list, with each letter (A-B-C-D ...) linking to the first content item that starts with that letter; it could be a bulleted list of topics that will be covered in detail farther down the page; or it could be a similar use. See How to Work with Collections for an example of the use of anchors (bookmarks).
- Highlight the text that will link to the anchor and click on the Hyperlink icon. The “Hyperlink” screen will come up (shown below).
- Click the Existing Anchor drop-down (below the URL box), to view the available anchors. Select the anchor you wish to link to. This will automatically fill in the URL field (Do not remove the "#" at the beginning). Click OK.
- Repeat the process for each anchor.
Note: Before submitting your content for publishing, checking it in Preview mode to make sure you added the anchors correctly is always a good idea. See How to Preview Content for more information.
