Hello folks!
I want to create a link on my home page that will take the viewer directly to the position on my page where the subject of the link is. What would I add to:
<a href="index.html">Todays Opinion</a> in order to move the page to the place where "Todays Opinion" is located?
Thanks!

Put this code where you want to go:-

<div id="opinion">

and to go there:-

<a href="#opinion">

This will give you a little more information about anchor text

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.2.3

You can also do it like this (which is what I think you were going for originally)

 
<a name="opinions" id="opinions">Todays Opinions</a>

Place this where you want the anchor to go

 
<a href="#opinions">Click here to go to todays opinions</a>

Place this where you want the link that points to the anchor

Both the "id" and "name" method are ok, depends on what you want, the link above will explain more.

Originally Posted by aldor

Put this code where you want to go:-

<div id="opinion">

and to go there:-

<a href="#opinion">

Thank You my friend! I have been trying:

<a name="opinion"</a>

and

<a href="#opinion"></a>

but could not get the page to validate!

Originally Posted by bakerc

This will give you a little more information about anchor text

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.2.3

You can also do it like this (which is what I think you were going for originally)

 
<a name="opinions" id="opinions">Todays Opinions</a>

Place this where you want the anchor to go

 
<a href="#opinions">Click here to go to todays opinions</a>

Place this where you want the link that points to the anchor

Both the "id" and "name" method are ok, depends on what you want, the link above will explain more.

Thank You bakerc!
Now I'm off to see if it will validate.

There is no reason at all to use the old <a name>, you can give any element an ID, as suggested in the first reply you got.

Thank you LadynRed.