Scroll to spot on page

HTML & CSS
1

After a user logs in, I want to take them back to the Comments section on my Article page.

How do I do that when I do not want to take them to a link?

I tried adding an anchor in an Heading like this, but NetBeans complains…

<h3  name="comments">Comments</h3>

Thanks,

Debbie

2

You can simply anchor an element by an id, E.g. you can use xxx.com/mypage.php#comments then use the below

<h3 id="comments">Comments</h3>
3

Oh, okay. I was trying to use name instead.

Sounds good.

Thanks,

Debbie

4

As Chris said, the selector (id) will help in achieving what you need. You can also use jQuery to smoothen the scrolling (or jumping).

5

Yes, the name= setup is outdated now. This is one of the main uses for ids (along with JS hooks). I don’t use ids for styling at all now.