A Target or sometimes called an anchor is a placeholder within an HTML document that may be used for linking. Rather than link to another document, you are simply creating a link within the same document.

Defining a target is quite simple. Instead of using the <A HREF> tag, you use a different parameter in the <A> tag so that the tag is a name tag (i.e. <A NAME=" ">) - Take the following example where a target is defined as being "target":

After Defining the target, you can then link to that target. The following shows the code that links to the target we just defined:

Notice the <a HREF> tag has a pound sign (i.e. #) before the name of the target

It tells the browser to look for a target rather than a URL

Let's get creative. Let's say in Document A you want to create a link to a target that resides in Document B. The URL for Document B is http://yourdomain.com/index.php - within Document B is the following tag about 5 screens down on the page

In Document A, you create a link to that Target (anchor) by adding the following line:

Notice you simply appended the #target onto the end of the URL. This tells the browser to first retrieve the document found at http://yourdomain.com/index.php and then after retrieving the document position the document to the target (anchor) #target