anchor
anchor — A spot in the document.
Synopsis
anchor ::=
- empty
Attributes
No additional attributes.
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.
Attributes
None.
- any attribute
Any attribute in any other explicit namespace
Parents
These elements contain anchor: abbrev, abstract, accel, acknowledgements, acronym, address, annotation, answer, appendix, application, arg, article, artpagenums, attribution, authorinitials, bibliocoverage, bibliodiv, bibliography, biblioid, bibliolist, bibliomisc, bibliomixed, bibliomset, bibliorelation, bibliosource, blockquote, bridgehead, buildtarget, callout, calloutlist, caption (db.caption), caption (db.html.caption), caution, chapter, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, city, classname, classsynopsisinfo, code, colophon, command, computeroutput, confdates, confnum, confsponsor, conftitle, constant, constraintdef, contractnum, contractsponsor, contrib, country, cover, danger, database, dedication, description, edition, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, enumidentifier, enumitemdescription, enumname, enumvalue, envar, epigraph, errorcode, errorname, errortext, errortype, example, exceptionname, fax, figure, filename, firstname, firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), footnote, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), funcdef, funcparams, funcsynopsisinfo, function, givenname, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, glosslist, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, hardware, holder, honorific, important, index, indexdiv, informalexample, informalfigure, initializer, interfacename, issuenum, itemizedlist, jobtitle, keycap, keycode, keysym, label, legalnotice, lineage, lineannotation, link, listitem, literal, literallayout, macroname, manvolnum, markup, mathphrase, member, meta (db.meta.content), methodname, modifier, mousebutton, msgaud, msgexplan, msglevel, msgorig, msgtext, note, olink, option, optional, orderedlist, orgdiv, orgname, otheraddr, othername, package, pagenums, para, paramdef, parameter, partintro, personblurb, personname, phone, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), pob, postcode, preface, primary, primaryie, printhistory, procedure, productname, productnumber, programlisting, prompt, property, publishername, qandadiv, qandaset, question, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refmiscinfo, refname, refpurpose, refsect1, refsect2, refsect3, refsection, refsynopsisdiv, releaseinfo, remark, replaceable, result, returnvalue, revdescription, revnumber, revremark, screen, secondary, secondaryie, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, seriesvolnums, setindex, shortaffil, sidebar, simpara, simplesect, specializedtemplate, state, step, street, subscript, subtitle, superscript, surname, symbol, synopsis, synopsisinfo, systemitem, tag, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, td, template, templatename, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, textobject, th, tip, title, titleabbrev, toc, tocdiv, tocentry, token, topic, trademark, type, typedefname, unionname, uri, userinput, variablelist, varname, volumenum, warning, wordasword, year.
See Also
Examples
1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>|<title>Example anchor</title>||<para>The anchor element<anchor xml:id="example.anchor.1"/> is empty and contributes5 |nothing to the flow of the content in which it occurs. It is only useful|as a target.|</para>||</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.