How can I create a navigational link on a page which takes you to specific text areas on the same page. For example, at the beginning of the page, I have a list of key items on the page. I want to set each of the items on the list as a link so a click on it will take a user to that part of the page. Thanks

hi victor- i believe you could use an anchor tag using "a name". hope the below helps you and that i understood your question right.

So let's say you have a list of links like this:
{a href="http://www.victor.com"} LINK1 {/a}
{a href="http://www.victor.com"} LINK2 {/a}
{a href="http://www.victor.com"} LINK3 {/a}

And you want these links to go to different sections or paragraphs on the same page. Using LINK1 as an example, let's say you want it to go down to this pretend paragraph:

I am a paragraph and I want an a name attribute so that when folks click on Link1 they arrive down here where I am.

So to do this, you would add the "a name" to the end of the LINK url, and the "a name" tag to the PARAGRAPH/SECTION itself. Which would look like this:

{a href="http://www.victor.com#link1"}LINK1 {/a}

{a name="link1"}I am a paragraph and I want an a name attribute so that when folks click on Link1 they arrive down here where I am.

You can name the "a name" anything, I just used "link 1" as a name but it can be anything as shown below.

{a href="http://www.victor.com#EARTH"} LINK1 {/a}
{a href="http://www.victor.com#WIND"} LINK2 {/a}
{a href="http://www.victor.com#FIRE"} LINK3 {/a}

{a name="EARTH"} If you click LINK1 you will arrive here in this document.
{a name="WIND"} If you click LINK2 you will arrive here in this document.
{a name="FIRE"} If you click LINK3 you will arrive here in this document.

You can also omit the full link path and just use the a name and a href itself if you are linking to your own document (as below). However, if you trying to link to another page url on your site, then you should include the full url path obviously as with any other link and put the "a name="LINK1" reference on that page where you want the link to jump to.

{a href="Whatever"}LINK1{/a}

{a name="#Whatever"}Paragraph text

sib- thanks for your response. however, when i click on any of the newly inserted links, it doesn't really jump to a specific section of the page. it actually sometimes overshoots the spot where I want to do. I checked to make sure I put the code right before the paragraph.

do you have an example? I am not sure i understand. You may need to put it higher up elsewhere if its not hitting where you want.

o.k - maybe, I am not applying your code properly.

Question: what is the function of the "Link1" in this code:

{a href="http://www.victor.com#EARTH"} LINK1 {/a}.

I currently have my code as:

{a href= #"EARTH"}{/a} - for the link, and
{a name="EARTH"}paragraph - for the paragraph

got it to work. Used the following:

text --- placed jsut before link
paragraph --- placed jsut before start of paragraph.

thaanks

soory for the previous post:

{a href="#name"} text {/a} - for link
{a name="name"} - for paragraph

Victor that's right and that's exactly what I gave you. Instead of using the word "text" - I used LINK1 following your subject of links. Glad it worked out.