The Mirkwood Elves are these things that nerds go on about.
``` --- Perfect! Thanks! --- If you want to control the speed that clicking on an anchor links moves down a page, use[jQuery](http://jquery.com/) with [SmoothAnchors](http://www.ooeygui.net/articles/399). A bit of eye candy but your web users will like it if so inclined. --- > [@friedo](#): > > Use an anchor link. You can link to any tag with a matching ID attribute in the page. > > ```auto > > Mirkwood Elves > .... > >The Mirkwood Elves are these things that nerds go on about.
> > ``` Whoa. And all this time I’d been using redundant \ for bookmarks… **thank you**! --- > [@Reply](#): > > Whoa. And all this time I’d been using redundant \ for bookmarks… **thank you**! I wouldn’t call it redundant, you have to have something there. Anyway, this was very neat. Thank you very much. --- > [@Floater](#): > > I wouldn’t call it redundant, you have to have something there. Anyway, this was very neat. Thank you very much. What do you mean? If I had a paragraph like \ that I could link to directly, there’d be no need for a separate \
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And if you don’t have something like \ you must have \. Using both at the same time makes one of them redundant.
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> And if you don’t have something like \ you must have \. Using both at the same time makes one of them redundant.
Oh, right. I should’ve been more clear. I usually have my elements named anyway for CSS styling purposes. I didn’t realize I could also use them as bookmarks.
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> And if you don’t have something like \ you must have \. Using both at the same time makes one of them redundant.
Yep – the fact that #foo can link to any id attribute in a document (as opposed to just named anchors) seems to be a bit of an open secret. I’ve met lots of front-end developers who had no idea. (And I used to do tons of redundant named anchors as well.)
I think this feature was added in HTML4, which makes it about 11 years old. 😛
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I’ve never seen that trick in any HTML book or tips page. It’s always only ever been the \ attribute. You learn something new every day.