Anchors and links within a page

This is the first paragraph of what we are pretending is a long web page. To move from one place to another in a page, there must be anchors (places to go to; destinations) and links, like the ones you have already seen, to take you to (in this case) the anchors.

And to make this page work, there has to be lots of padding so that there are different places to jump to! That's why these stars have been included. This page has five anchors - places in all to jump to - And they all have NAME in the tag. In a real page, these could be section headings, definitions of particular terms, or other things.

So, here are a few links to exciting places in this text. Links all have HREF in the tag, and before the anchor name (e.g. place1) there is a # character, often known as hash or maybe (if you are musical) sharp.
An internal link to a first place in this page.
An internal link to another place in this page.
An internal link to yet another place in this page.
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This is a first place in this page. This anchor is called "place1", and the link to it has HREF="#place1". If you don't put in the #, the browser program will go looking for a file of that name in the same directory, rather than an anchor in the same page. Go back to the first paragraph.
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This is another place in this page. You can use any names for the anchors that you like, but you must have only one anchor for any name. The best names (as in programming) are the ones that are meaningful (unlike some of these!) But you can have as many links to one anchor as you like - this is a second link to the anchor "firstpara" Go back to the first paragraph.
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This is yet another place in this page. It is just about at the bottom, but notice how in this case Netscape does not put the anchor at the top of the page when you jump here, because the end of the page comes too soon. A link to any anchor which is part of the last screenful will just get you to the same place - the last screenful - in the current version of Netscape.
Go back to the first paragraph.
Go right back to heading.

You can also make links to places inside another page. Here, for example, is a link to the contents list on the main page, which is near the top of that page.