How to Create Targets (Anchors) on a Web Page Using Netscape Composer

A target (also called an anchor) is a location within a web page that you can move to quickly by clicking on text on the same web page. It is often used as a fast way to navigate a long web page. Click here to see an example.

To create a target on a web page...

1. Open Netscape Composer.
   
   
2. Move your cursor to the target location.
   
   
3. Highlight the first word at the target location.

   
   

4. Click on the "Target" button at the top of the screen.
   
   
   
   
5. A "Target Properties" box will open up that contains the highlighted text.
   
   
   
   
6. Click on the "OK" button.
   
   
7. Move the cursor to the text that you want to link to the target.
   
   
8. Highlight the text that you want to include in the link.
   
   
   
   
9. Click on the "Link" button.
   
   
   
   
10. Click on the target that you want to associate with this link in the "Character Properties" box.

    NOTE: The text preceded by a # sign will appear in the "Link to" box.
    
    

11. Click on the "Apply" button and then the "Close" button.

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Author: Susan Campbell
scampbel@gmu.edu
August 29, 2001