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The attribute "NAME" for the anchor tab is known as a
bookmark. Bookmarks can be used for several
purposes and they can be used without having a
link, i.e. with nothing specified in the HREF line! |
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The line "NAME" gives you the option to bookmark any marked section (i.e. just one letter or
any "string") of your document with a name of your choice. Whatever
you wrote and marked now has a name, and
the name is whatever you wrote in the "NAME" line of the attribute list. What is this
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Lets find out by a little
experimenting: |
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Mark any word you like and click on the "Insert Bookmark key" (the one with
the blue arrow going left and down). A menu comes up that is asking you to
write down a name for the bookmark. |
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Write whatever you like; just a single digit or
number is enough. The marked word now carries the anchor tag characteristic for
a link. That is because the "Insert bookmark
key" is just a shortcut for filling in the attribute
"NAME" of the
<A></A> link tag. |
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But if you now look for the attributes of that
anchor, you will find the HREF line empty; it contains only the name you
typed in the NAME line. The anchor tag thus
has another function besides providing links: It can be used to just
"bookmark" a certain word or string in your document. |
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Why is that bookmark function part of
the tag for links? Because you can use it to provide a link that does not just
jump to the top, i.e. the very beginning of some
other document, but to the line that contains the
bookmark with the name which you provided in the link! |
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In other words: if your link goes to some long
document, without a bookmark to guide the jump, always the top of the document
will appear and you will have to scroll to wherever you are supposed to go.
With a bookmark at the right place, the line with the bookmarked word will
appear at the top of your screen - you do not have to search for the right part
of the document by scrolling up and down! |
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Obviously, to use this function, you
must have two things: |
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1. You must bookmark appropriate words in
the document that your link is leading to. |
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2. You must provide a reference to this
bookmark - its name - in the attributes of the link in the document where you
are setting the link. |
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Unfortunately, its rather easy to get
confused with this. Lets see why: |
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If you look at the attribute list belonging to
the anchor tag, it is tempting, to write the name of the bookmark to which the
link should go in the NAME line. That will not work! Because if you do this, you
bookmark the word that is to carry the
link. That might be useful if some link from somewhere else leads to
your document, but doesn't help you for the link you are trying to
establish. |
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What you have to do, is to write the name of the
bookmark in the HREF line after the address, and always preceded it by a
# sign. A proper address carrying a bookmark may then look like this:
../../amat_stud/project/homepage.html#bookmark. |
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This is a bit awkward to work with.
You either have to remember the exact name of the bookmark in some document you
want to establish a link to, or you must open this document and look it up
using the F6 key to find out the name of the bookmark indicated by an
<A></A> tag. HoTMetaL therefore provides a
short cut. |
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You must have both files
open: the one which should carry the link, and the one the link
should go to. Since you cannot insert bookmarks into somebody else's files, but
only in your own files, this is always possible to do. |
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If a bookmark in the target field does not yet
exist at the proper place, you make it by activating that file, pressing the
"Insert Bookmark key"
(blue arrow to the left and down), and writing down the name of your
choice. |
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Now you activate the file that is to contain the
link. After marking the string that is going to carry the link, you do not
press the "anchor key" for the
link, but the "Insert link to
bookmark" key (blue arrow up and to the left). |
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The menu coming up asks for an open file - select
the one with the bookmark where the link should go to. All bookmarks in this
document are shown, click on the one you want. |
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You have now established your link to
the right file and the right bookmark. If you look at the attributes, you will
find your bookmark after the # sign. |
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However, HoTMetaL pro has a bug in this
part which you have to know and correct - otherwise there might be
trouble. |
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The name for your bookmark may consist of more
than one word - naturally then with a space in between. As an example take
"Insert bookmark" |
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In the attribute list of the anchor that appears,
you will read "...#Insert%/20bookmark" - the %/20" sign
meaning "non-breaking space",
i.e. a space symbol. |
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But this will not
work. You have to erase it and put in a real spacer "by
hand" |
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