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Subject: Re: intrapage linking
From: David Crossley <crossley@indexgeo.com.au>
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Date: 23 Jan 2004 12:46:04 +1100
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Dave Brondsema wrote:
> I want to link directly to specific sections of a page.  I see that an
> anchor is already created for each section, using it's title.  There is
> also one right before it with an id number, like N10013.  Also, I can
> specify id="some-val" as a section attribute and then an anchor with name
> "some-val" is created.  Is this last way the best way to do it?

I think so. The other two methods seem not as good to me
as they change when the document is edited, which makes
them ineffective.

> Does this
> id->anchor conversion work for all elements, or just sections?

I just tried an experiment by putting an "id" attr on both li
and link elements and it worked. Not yet looked at the stylesheets.

--David