A link has two ends — called anchors — and a direction. The link starts at the “source” anchor and points to the “destination” anchor, which may be any Web resource (e.g., an image, a video clip, a sound bite, a program, an HTML document, an element within an HTML document, etc.).
Source from World Wide Web Consortium (aka W3C)
https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.1
Using Anchor Tags
Anchor tags are used for links that jump to a particular place in a page — either on the current page or another page entirely.
Steps for creating anchort tags:
Create the Anchor ID:
- Select the block (e.g., a heading or paragraph) you want to jump to.
- In the right-hand settings panel, open the Advanced tab.
- Type a unique, lowercase name with hyphens (no spaces) into the HTML anchor field (e.g., faq-section).
Create the link:
- Highlight the text or button you want to use as the clickable link.
- Click the Link icon (chain link) in the toolbar.
- Enter the hash symbol followed by your anchor ID (e.g., #faq-section) into the URL field.
- Press Enter to save.
Key Rules:
- The anchor ID must be unique within the page.
- The ID in the link (#faq-section) must exactly match the ID in the HTML anchor field (case-sensitive, no spaces).
- For menu links or links to another page, use the full URL followed by the hash (e.g., https://stolaf.edu/page/#faq-section).