URL to automatically jump to a section of the page

So.. wasn't sure where to put this, but was wondering if there was a way to automatically go to a section of the page by adding something to the URL...

Basically, there's a website that has a bunch of articles on it. One written by someone who wants to link to it in her portfolio. Right now, it's the last article on the page, however, later on, more articles will be added. So, if the article was titled "Summer Beans", is there something I can add to the URL to bring that section of the page to the top of the browser so a visitor doesn't need to scroll down to the bottom (or to wherever the article is located)..?

Thanks.. if you need further clarification, let me know.

Only if the page has anchor tags in it (<a name="foo"></a>).

Then you can make your URL like this:
http://www.mysite.com/page.html#foo

and the browser will scroll down to the relevant section.

For example, this page has anchor tags on it, and I can bounce you to a specific section like this:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/m...acs.html#Screen

Thanks for the reply. Was hoping there was some way without using anchors as she doesn't have access to the code. Just an article she wrote that was published on a site. Oh well... Figured I'd try... Thanks

Have a div (or any element for that matter) with an id, like so <div id="myid"> .
http://mysite.com/mypage.php#myid , you will be taken to the section of the page that contains <div id="myid">.

As I mentioned in my last post, she doesn't have access to the code. I wasn't sure if there was some parameter that you could pass in the URL to essentially search for keywords or something (http://www.domain.com/page.aspx?search=String%20Beans)... Figured there wasn't, but as I've never needed this before, I hadn't done a lot of searching on the matter. When this question was presented to me is when I started looking on google and then asking in here.

Thanks.

Sorry, overlooked that part of the post. AFAIK, it is not possible without access to the code.

Is it ever possible to create a URL that jumps to class="foo"?

I have never seen this using regular HTML.

Obviously, jumping to class="foo" isn't the same as jumping to id="bar" (where in the latter, you could simply create a URL of URLgoesHere#bar).

But does anyone know of a Javascript snippet that could force a URL (when clicked) to open the primary URL and jump down the page to say .foo(0) (i.e., the first appearance of class="foo")?

As a side note, it can be simple to find a div (with id="bar") that is close to the class element you are trying to create a URL to jump to, and use that as a sort of hack, i.e., URLgoesHere#BARthatisclosetoFOO

Hiker, I had this idea in college, and me and my Exploiting the Information World group hacked at it for nearly a month before giving up. Sadly, the best you can do is abuse the link IDs if there are any, or tell people how to use ctrl+f.