HTML query

manonthemoon

I'm working on a project where there are 600 items -

approx. 100 pages x 6 items per page. My query is how do i link to each particular item .

Should you wish to link to a certain item on the bottom of the page, my client wishes that you click staright to that item, i.e. no scrolling

The site is complete except for this so the simpler the solution the better.

Thanks

Motm

seamus

Not sure what you mean.....

On each page you want to be able to click a link and go straight to one of the six items?

Then you put 6 links at the top of the page, each of the format

<a href="#item1"........
<a href="#item2"........

etc

Then for each item, you put an anchor on it like

<a name = "item1">....</a>
<a name = "item2">....</a>

etc etc

buddy

Agreed - bookmarks are the best way to go.

LoLth

most basic way would be to put links to the items at the top of the page and have the target be an anchor.

eg:

<a href="#item1"> Item 1 </a>
<a href="#item2"> Item 2 </a>

page continues: at the description of the item put:

<p><a name="item1"> Item 1 </a> Item 1 description goes here.</p>
<p><a neam="item2"> Item2</a> Item 2 description goes here </p>

you can also reference a completely different page if you want to put an index at the first page. use <a href="url/page number/#anchor name>

more than likely there is a much better way to do this, but that's the basic one.

hope it helps.

doh! damn my lack of touchtyping skills

manonthemoon

Sorry guys, I should have explained better

On each page I have a scroll down list of the 600 items. All the links to every item are in this scroll down list.

Say I click on item No. 599.

The link will go to the last page, but to the top of the last page. Item 599 in on the bottom of page and at present the user will have to scroll down Can I link directly to that item.

Hope this makes sense

LoLth

then change the target url of the list entries to include anchore (the #bit) and edit the pages to include anchors at relevant points.

buddy

A scrolldown list or a dropdown list - I've down this before.

I've done it before with a lil javascript and bookmarks:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript"><!--
function go(){
if(document.info.menu.options[document.info.menu.selectedIndex].value != "none") {
location.href= document.info.menu.options[document.info.menu.selectedIndex].value
}
}
//--></SCRIPT>

<SELECT NAME="menu" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt">
<OPTION>Make your choice.....</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="sample.htm#1">1</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="sample.htm#2">2</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="sample.htm#3">3</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="sample.htm#4">4</OPTION>
</SELECT>