I know this is a little bit hard to understand, but I've seen some sites using the ID of an element in the url to send you somewhere, and I was wondering if it's also possible with classes.

I don't think this is private or something like that because anyone can get it by inspecting the page. I also tryed with a dot (".class"), but it unfortunately didn't work.

So is there another way of doing this with other than IDs?

I know this is a little bit hard to understand, but I've seen some sites using the ID of an element in the url to send you somewhere, and I was wondering if it's also possible with classes.

I don't think this is private or something like that because anyone can get it by inspecting the page. I also tryed with a dot (".class"), but it unfortunately didn't work.

So is there another way of doing this with other than IDs?

• javascript
• html
• inspect-element

• <a href="#div">Content</a> – Arnav Borborah Commented Aug 30, 2016 at 20:26
• clicking on a link with a hashtag will scroll you to the point on that page where that id occurs. it's called a bookmark. if you used classes how would the browser know which one to scroll to? why do you want to do that anyway? – Robert Parham Commented Aug 30, 2016 at 20:29
• Hashes can only refer to id attributes and name attributes, but not class or any other attribute. – mwcz Commented Aug 30, 2016 at 20:29
• 1 Wrong answer Arnav. But anyway, I don't think there's anything that can be done with classes as there is no guarantee a class is unique, therefore how does the browser know which to scroll to? Could implement some behavour with JavaScript which takes the first – Joseph Young Commented Aug 30, 2016 at 20:29

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You cannot do this with classes because they're not unique. The browser needs to know exactly where to send you, and using a class name instead of an ID would be ambiguous.