Creating a Link to a Specific Location within an HTML Document

You can create a link to a specific location within an HTML document. When such a link is followed, the document opens and displays the specified section.

This card describes how to link to a place in a document on your local system. For instructions on linking to a document on a remote system, see Creating a Link to Remote HTML Documents.

  1. Specify the location in the document for the link. Either

  2. Choose Tools > Link... or click the Link button in the Links and Targets palette.

  3. You can link to either a target in the current file, or an external file. If you are linking to a target in the current file, you must

    If you are linking to a target in another file, you must

  4. Along the right edge of the Create Link window, you see a list of elements you can list. Click to select or deselect items.

  5. Click to select an item in the list, then click the Apply button.

    Cosmo Create makes the link. If you selected a heading that isn't already marked as a target, Cosmo Create automatically designates the item as a target and gives it a unique target name. Consequently, when you close that file, you'll need to save the changes. If you do not have permission to save changes to the file, you cannot use this technique.