You can add links within a Joomla article. For example, if you have a long Joomla article, you can add navigation links at the top of the Joomla article. These links will take the user directly to a paragraph or heading in the document.

Important - This procedure is easier if you have JCE Content Editor installed ( http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/ ).

  1. In an open article, go to the paragraph or heading you want to link to, and then put your cursor at the beginning of the paragraph or heading.
  2. Click the Insert Anchor icon. Joomla Insert Anchor
    Joomla displays the Insert Anchor Dialog

    insert-anchor-dialog
    Insert Anchor Dialog
  3. Type an anchor name in the Anchor Name field and then click Insert.
    Joomla inserts an anchors in the paragraph.

    Anchor in Text
    Anchor Symbol Indicating the Inserted Anchor
  4. Create link text, select the link text, and click Insert Link Joomla JCE Insert Link Icon
    Joomla displays the Insert Link dialog.

    Joomla JCE Insert Link Dialog
    Insert Link Dialog

  5. From the Anchors field, select the anchor you want to link to.

    Note: If you are using the default Joomla editor, you must type the anchor name preceded by the pound sign; for example type #cat in the ULR field.

    Note: You can create a link from another page to an anchor. For example, if you want to link to the cat1 anchor in the example above, you need to enter the whole URL of the page you are linking to, plus add the anchor at the end of the url:

    http://mysite.com/somepage#cat1
  6. Click Insert to insert the link.
    Joomla inserts a link to the anchor.

    Joomla Anchor Links
    Navigation Links to Paragraphs within the Article
  7. Open the article on your website and test the link to make sure it links to the correct paragraph within the article.

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