3 Easy steps to Create a Link to Jump to a Specific Part of a Page in HTML

Creating a jump link can help improve the user experience, make navigating long-form content a lot easier and clicking on which jumps you to the specific part you want to read.

It also allows you to skip the section of topics which you already know and get right to reading what you came for.

In this article, you’ll learn how to create a link to jump to a specific part of a page in HTML with the help of examples.

So, Let’s get started!

Before we move further, Let’s first understand what actually jump links are?

Links that directly take you to a specific part of the page or any external page are called jump links. Sometimes also referred as Anchor links, jump menu links or table of contents.

Now, Let’s move into our main concern. i.e., How to create a link to jump to a specific part of a page in HTML ?

How to create a link to jump to a specific part of a page in HTML ?

Here are the 3 easy steps that you may follow to create a jump link to your page.

1. Give a name to the specific part (section) where you want to jump.
2. Create an HTML anchor tag with assigning the name (Name you chose in the previous step) to the id attribute and insert it into the opening <a> tag.
3. Create a hyperlink that’ll take you to that specific part of the page where you want to jump.

Step 1: Give a name to the specific part (section) where you want to jump.

To create a jump link, we need a link (as a source) and a target (as a destination).  

Link is the written text where you can click and reach to the specific part where you want to jump.  

The target is that particular object where you want to directly jump by clicking the link.

The target object can be any element on the web page. But in general, a target is a headline or subheadline using an H tag like <h1>, <h2> and <h3>.

And, The body of the target headings basically contains a paragraph, an image, a video, a form or a table etc.

So, Let’s choose a name for our target object.

Example:

Let’s suppose you have a long online resume page and here you want to add a jump link to your About section (which describes your personal information) in that page.  

Here are some possible names you can choose as your target object’s name:

About, About me, Know more about me etc.

Let’s say you have chosen About me.

So, That’s all for the first step.

Now, Let’s jump into the next step.

Step 2: Create an HTML anchor tag with assigning the name (Name you chose in the previous step) to the "id" attribute and insert it into the opening <a> tag.

This step is very simple, You just have to replace the text inside the double quotes of the tag below with the name you chose in the previous step:

<a id="PLACE_YOUR_OBJECT_NAME_HERE">

While assigning name to “id” attribute keep these following points in mind: 

1. Do not use spaces to separate words, use underscores or dashes instead of spaces.
2. Do not use hashtags (#), colons (:) or periods (.) at the beginning of your “id” attribute. Means, do not start the “id” attribute name with these characters. These characters have special meaning in HTML.
3. If you use only single word for your “id” attribute name, then you don’t need to bother about dashes or underscores. Keep it simple.

Example:

<a id="About_me">

After that, Add tag content between the opening <a> and closing </a> anchor tag.

The tag content is simply the text which will be visible to the user as headings of target object and it describes what the target object is all about. 

I’d recommend you to use the same name for tag content that you chose for you target object’s name.

Here, we are taking the tag content as: “The object where you want to jump.”

<a id="PLACE_YOUR_OBJECT_NAME_HERE">The object where you want to jump.</a>

Example:

<a id="About_me">About me.</a>

Step 3: Create a hyperlink that’ll take you to that specific part of the page where you want to jump.

Now, This is the time to go to the part of the page you’d like to your link to be.  

Here you’ll have to create and add a hyperlink.

And, To create a hyperlink which is targeting with a specified id within the same page, you’ll have to include # (hashtag/pound) symbol then assign some name to the "href" attribute and insert it into an opening HTML anchor tag.

In this case the name would be exactly the same name which you already assign to the “id” attribute.

It looks like this:

<a href="#PLACE_YOUR_OBJECT_NAME_HERE">Click here to jump over a specific part of a page.</a>

Example:

<a href="#About_me">Click here to know more about me.</a>

Conclusion:

Hurray! 

You just learned how to create a link to jump to a specific part of a page in HTML.

So, That’s all from my side.

I really hope this article helps you in creating jump links to a specific part of page in HTML.

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