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CMS Anchors

/ Tags: Anchor, Creating Anchors, Anchors, Using Anchors, Editing, Linking, Anchor Links

Add an anchor to a page, as follows:

  1. Place your cursor in the content where you want the anchor to be. 
  2. In the What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) toolbar, click the Anchor icon.Anchor icon
  3. Enter a name for your anchor.
    1. Don't use spaces or add "#" before the name.
  4. Click Save.
  5. Your anchor has now been created, and you should see an anchor icon in the text (this will not appear on the live page).
  6. Save your changes.

Link to an anchor within same page:

  1. Highlight the text you want to turn into a link.
  2. In the WYSIWYG toolbar, click the Insert/Edit Link  icon to open the "Insert/Edit Link" box.Link icon
  3. If anchors exist on this page, the "Anchors" dropdown will be available. Select the anchor on this page you want to link to.

Link to an anchor from another page:

  1. If you want to link to an anchor from another page, in the "URL" field, click the file chooser.File chooser icon
  2. From file chooser, click the name of the page.
  3. Click Insert.
  4. In the "URL" field, type "#" and the anchor name. 
  5. Don't use spaces in the anchor name.
  6. In the "Title" field, enter the name of the anchor you're linking to.
  7. "Title" text appears when someone hovers over the link and is used by screen readers. This is important to meet accessibility compliance standards.
  8. Save your changes.