Smooth Scrolling Sliding Effect for Anchor Links | YBT

Q. What are Anchor Text Links & what purpose does it serve ? A. Anchor links is a tool which helps user to navigate a webpage from one point to other points. Sometimes, a post/article may be too big which may be inconvenient for the user. So an Index in the beginning can help the user to directly point to different sections of that article. We can create anchor text links by providing two types of effects - 1. Anchor Text Link – Jump Break (Instant Jump) using simple HTML 2. Anchor Text Link – Smooth Scrolling Sliding Effect using JQuery

The most popular among the web designers, bloggers & surfers is the smooth scrolling effect for comfortable navigation across the web page.

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A. Create Anchor Text Link – Jump Break using simple HTML

1. For applying Anchor text link, Go to Source Code of your Blog Post.

2. Locate the TEXT which will point to different sections of your post/article. (It may be your Contents/Index of the Article). For e.g. In my case, I will create Anchor linking on