How do I go about having a text link direct the viewer to the part of the same page where that specific information can be found so that viewers do not have to do a lot of scrolling before reaching the desired info? Thanks.

Named Anchors
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit....link_locations

You don't need the old "a name" stuff, using css you can just put an id on say a heading or other element where you want the internal link to be, and it works exactly the same w/o any additional markup.

Originally Posted by LadynRed

You don't need the old "a name" stuff, using css you can just put an id on say a heading or other element where you want the internal link to be, and it works exactly the same w/o any additional markup.

To elaborate a little here's an crude example but it works; Here is the code example for the word services being the navigational link:
<a href="#services">services</a>

then the place to where that will link would go to will look like this:
<div id="services">Services text here</div>

In the above example the services link that is surrounded with the <a> tag is the actual link, and the <div id="services"> is where you end up after clicking the services link. You have to make sure that the #Whatever matches the <div id="whatever">

<div id="services">Services text here</div>

Umm.. using a div for a heading is not necessary and not proper semantic coding. A better example would be to actually use a proper heading tag:

<h1 id="services">Services</h1>

I doubt on the OPs intention, he created same thread in other forum

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2041754

but never replied to any of the post.

Originally Posted by radiant_luv

I doubt on the OPs intention, he created same thread in other forum

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2041754

but never replied to any of the post.

Maybe the member wanted to see which forum would have answered the question first,

Originally Posted by Digital Friend

Maybe the member wanted to see which forum would have answered the question first,

may be, I had posted with right direction within an hour of the thread was created. Just thought it was unnecessery by posting in multiple forum unless the issue is real tricky or there is no solution in sight.

Simple and no javascript needed:

Add this to the part you want to scroll to:

<a name="SkipHere"><h1>Some subsection</h1></a>

To link to that section on the page, use a link like this:

<a href="subpage.html#SkipHere">Skip Go and go right to the subsection</a>

Simple!

Let me repeat myself - the deprecated "name" attribute is NOT necessary -- see examples in posts above.