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Dreamweaver 2017 named anchors

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September 17, 2017
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I know that "insert named anchor" has unfortunately been removed and you are supped to link to element IDs but that doesn't help if you want to link to a word that is in the middle of a long paragraph and not a stand alone title or header. It will end up linking to the paragraph or div tag that the word is in and which might not be near the word. Are there any shortcuts for this or will I just need to write in code what used to be fast and easy. Perhaps I should try to make a snippet?

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Correct answer Jon Fritz

To wrap the "anchor" text you want, in a set of tags with an id, in CC 2017.5...

1. Highlight the text you want to jump to in Design View
2. Right click the highlighted text

3. Choose Wrap Tag... from the pop up menu
4. Type span in the text box that appears

5. Hit Enter twice

6. In the Properties window, add a unique id in the Id field

You will then be able to link to that id using # and the id in the link field.

Jon Fritz

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To wrap the "anchor" text you want, in a set of tags with an id, in CC 2017.5...

1. Highlight the text you want to jump to in Design View
2. Right click the highlighted text

3. Choose Wrap Tag... from the pop up menu
4. Type span in the text box that appears

5. Hit Enter twice

6. In the Properties window, add a unique id in the Id field

You will then be able to link to that id using # and the id in the link field.

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elhzAuthor

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Thanks, I knew I could wrap it with span tags but writing that out in code took as long as writing out name= in code. From the top menu I could only wrap with div tags although I thought I used to be able to wrap with span tags from there. This will be faster than writing with code on a page with many anchors.

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elhzAuthor

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What I don't understsand though is why the right-click only brings up "wrap tag" in design view and gives you a box you can type in the word span. When I right-click the same highlighted word in code I don't get that option. From the favorites bar if I hit the div icon and wrap it will wrap a div but around but not a span and I see no box I can type span in. How would one do this from the top menu?

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I know that "insert named anchor" has unfortunately been removed and you are supped to link to element IDs but that doesn't help if you want to link to a word that is in the middle of a long paragraph and not a stand alone title or header. It will end up linking to the paragraph or div tag that the word is in and which might not be near the word. Are there any shortcuts for this or will I just need to write in code what used to be fast and easy. Perhaps I should try to make a snippet?

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