Creating and Using Bookmarks

A bookmark is a location on a page that you label so that it can be the target of a hyperlink. Bookmarks give you control over which part of a page is displayed when a user follows a hyperlink to that page. When a user follows a hyperlink to a bookmark, the Web browser displays the page starting at the bookmark’s location instead of at the top of the page.

In the FrontPage Editor, a bookmark is indicated by a dashed underline beneath text. In a URL, a bookmark is preceded by a number sign (#) as in http://www.microsoft.com/index.htm#mark.

To create a table of contents for a page’s topics, create a bookmark at each topic on the page, and then create hyperlinks to each of the bookmarks from the top of the same page.

Create a table of contents quickly You can quickly create a table of contents for a set of topics on a page. With the right mouse button, drag the heading of each topic to the top of the page. Release the mouse button and select Link Here from the displayed menu. The FrontPage Editor creates a hyperlink to the topic where you released the right mouse button. Do this for each topic to create your table of contents.

To create a bookmark in the FrontPage Editor, either at selected text or at the insertion point, choose the Bookmark command on the Edit menu. Choose a Bookmark Name or, if you are creating the bookmark at selected text, use the suggested name, and click OK.

Open Page icon

If a selected page in the Create Hyperlink dialog box is opened in the FrontPage Editor, the page’s bookmarks are listed in the Bookmark field. (Pages that are opened in the FrontPage Editor are indicated in the Create Hyperlink dialog box by the Open Page icon.) You can create a hyperlink to a bookmark on an open page by clicking the page and then choosing its bookmark from the list in the Bookmark field.

To create a hyperlink to a bookmark in a page that is not opened, select the page in the Create Hyperlink dialog box, then type the name of the bookmark in the Bookmark field.