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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Basic Selectors ID Selectors

Posted by Kelly Clark
Kelly Clark
4,387 Points

fragment identifier, landmark

In this video, Guil says that ID selectors can create anchors or landmarks. What is a landmark? Also, he says that the use of ID selectors to create anchors and landmarks makes them "fragment identifiers." I don't understand the term "fragment identifiers." Can someone explain? Thanks.

1 Answer

jamescool
jamescool
44,592 Points

Let's suppose an HTML document has a div with an ID of "middle." If "#middle" is added to the end of the URL (without quotes), the browser will advance automatically to that section of the document. Navigate to this URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier ...and now add "#footer" to the end of this URL and refresh the page. If you inspect the HTML of the Wikipedia page, you'll see that there is actually an ID of "footer." This is a fragment identifier in action. Hope that helps!

Kelly Clark
Kelly Clark
4,387 Points

Thank you that does help.