Creating and deleting link anchors

Link anchors are a way to designate certain positions inside a document. By using link anchors a link can directly reference and jump to a certain position inside a document. To make this possible, a link anchor has to be defined in that document before any link can reference to that position.

To define a link anchor inside a document that is to be targeted by a link

A link to the newly defined link anchor can now be set in the link dialog. As an alternative to above steps a link and link anchor can be set in one step using the link dialog too.

To delete a link anchor

Important: Above steps only delete the selected link anchor. Links referencing this link anchor remain the same thus leading to a 'dead' location.

As an alternative to above steps a link anchor can be deleted through the link dialog too.

See also

Links in HTML

Creating and manipulating links

Link dialog

Link anchor dialog