Need to link from one page to a specific spot on another

  • I found some online tutorials for doing this, but they were outdated.

    I simply want to put a link on Page A that goes to a specific block of text on Page B. Should be simple enough. So I create an anchor link, like this: Ruts Never Sleep
    on the destination text on Page B; but when I attempt to then link to it from Page A, like this:
    In an earlier post in this series
    two things go wrong:

    1) on Page B, the anchored text appears underlined, the way an active link would look; but it is not an active link (it is merely the anchor link/destination of the actual link from Page A), and anyway I don’t want the anchored text on Page B to look any different than it would if it wasn’t a anchored, because that should be completely irrelevant to someone viewing Page B.

    2) when I link from Page A to the anchored text, the link takes me to the top of Page B, not to the anchored text, though the URL on Page B displays the link as entered above, with the anchor reference at the end of it.

    Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

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  • The first link you provided above doesn’t work for me. The second one does, but when I search the source for the:

    <a name="ruts">...</a>

    I’m not finding it, which is why the page isn’t going to the correct location even though the URL looks right.

    I’m just guessing, but I suspect you’re trying to go to the Ruts Never Sleep heading. If so, you need to add the following in the Text tab of the editor for the post so the heading looks like this:

    <strong><a name="ruts">Ruts Never Sleep</a></strong>

    And then update the post.

    Thread Starter deekadelic

    (@deekadelic)

    I actually did have that exact text tab in the code for the page in question; but I had removed it before posting that last message, because I didn’t want a live post to have this problem; but I suppose it’s more helpful if you can actually see the problem in action, so I have put the tag back in there, so you can see it.

    In the process of putting the tag back in there, however, I discovered the reason it hadn’t been working before. It had to do with the fact that I was adding the “#ruts” tag to the end of the URL for a specific tag on Page A, not the URL for the page itself.

    So that part is resolved; though the other problem still persists- the one about the text “Ruts Never Sleeps” on Page B still showing up underlined, as if it is a live link, which it is not.

    Do you know how I can get this text to appear as normal text, while maintaining the “#ruts” anchor that refers to it?

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