Link to a Section of a Webpage

Link to a section of a webpage

your jump link looks like this

<a href="#div_id">jump link</a>

Then make

<div id="div_id"></div>

the jump link will take you to that div

Getting a link to go to a specific section on another page

I believe the example you've posted is using HTML5, which allows you to jump to any DOM element with the matching ID attribute. To support older browsers, you'll need to change:

<div id="timeline" name="timeline" ...>

To the old format:

<a name="timeline" />

You'll then be able to navigate to /academics/page.html#timeline and jump right to that section.

Also, check out this similar question.

How do I link to part of a page? (hash?)

If there is any tag with an id (e.g., <div id="foo">), then you can simply append #foo to the URL. Otherwise, you can't arbitrarily link to portions of a page.

Here's a complete example: <a href="http://example.com/page.html#foo">Jump to #foo on page.html</a>

Linking content on the same page example: <a href="#foo">Jump to #foo on same page</a>

It is called a URI fragment.

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