anchor

anchor — A spot in the document.

Synopsis

anchor ::=

  • empty

Attributes

Common attributes.

Additional attributes:

    Required attributes are shown in bold.

    Description

    An anchor identifies a single spot in the content. This may serve as the target for a cross-reference, for example, from a link. The anchor element may occur almost anywhere.

    Processing expectations

    An anchor has no content and generally produces no output. It is a link target.

    Parents [+]

    This element occurs in 250 elements.

    See Also

    link, olink, xref

    Examples

      1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
      2 <title>Example anchor</title>
        
      4 <para>The anchor element<anchor xml:id="example.anchor.1"/> is empty and contributes
        nothing to the flow of the content in which it occurs.  It is only useful
      6 as a target.
        </para>
      8 
        </article>

    The anchor element is empty and contributes nothing to the flow of the content in which it occurs. It is only useful as a target.

    Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)