Named anchors in HTML5

July 12, 2013 · 1 min read

The traditional way to create named anchors (bookmarks) on a page was to use

Top of page

If you are working in HTML5 you'll find that your web editors intellisense (if you have a decent one) highlights this as an error, although it will still work in current browsers.

If this really is a syntax error, what's the valid HTML5 way of doing this?

Well, it's very simple and has been supported by most browsers for several versions, you give the anchor/bookmark an ID and target that in your link.

My web page

with the 'top of page' link being

Top of page

This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: ihaynes

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