Anchor
JavaScript 1.2+, JScript 3.0+ Nav4+, IE 4+ Syntax
Core client-side JavaScript object.
Description
An instance of the Anchor object is created with each instance of the <a> tag with the NAME attribute set. An anchor itself is a point in an HTML document that can be reached by using a hypertext link. The hypertext link that references an anchor can appear within the same document as the anchor or in a completely different Web page. In either case, anchors allow access to specific parts of Web pages rather than always displaying the top of a document when a Web page is loaded in a browser. For an anchor to act like an anchor, the NAME property must be set for hyperlinks to reference the anchor's position in the document.
In HTML, the ...
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