My coworker Brian Hall and I came across a posting saying “everyone knows this”, and the this was that you can use a hash to link to an id. Here’s a snippet to demonstrate:
My Page With Internal Links
Navigation
A
Some content here that if relevant to 'A'
B
Some content here that is relevant to 'B'
C
Some content here that is relevant to 'C'
Previously, the way you would do this is to use an a tag with a name value around the h2 elements:
My Page With Internal Links Using Name Attribute
Navigation
A
Some content here that if relevant to 'A'
B
Some content here that is relevant to 'B'
C
Some content here that is relevant to 'C'
The “everyone knows this” technique has many advantages:
- No extraneous a tags that have to be unstyled, because they’re not really links
- Better cooperation with jQuery code because you are now using id attributes
- You can do some nifty styling using the target pseudo class selector