Linking to a place on the same page with XHTML

[D4VE]

Hi guys,

Bit stumped here. I need a link on a page which links to a different place down the page using XHTML 1.1

HTML used to be:

<a href="#one">Section one</a>

and later down the page:

<h2><a name="three">section one</a></h2>

Now, the W3C site says to use "id" instead of "name"
However, it doesnt work.
Can someone guide me

thanks in advance!

 

[Al Vallario]

Using name is perfectly fine. Your code looks good from here, except you're trying to link to #three with #one?

The following should work:

<a href="#one">Section one</a>

and later down the page:

<h2><a name="one">section one</a></h2>

 

[D4VE]

EDIT - Works great thanks mate.

 

[robmiller]

Why not just use

<ol>
    <li><a href="#one">Section one</a></li>
    <li><a href="#two">Section two</a></li>
</ol>

<h3 id="one">Section one</h3>

<p>blah blah blah</p>

<h3 id="two">Section two</h3>

<p>blah blah blah</p>

 

[D4VE]

thats what I did in the end, thanks Rob

 

[Augmented]

Using name is perfectly fine.

Not in XHTML 1.1 - it's been removed in favour of ids for <a> elements .