How to Link to Specific Paragraphs

If you want to cite a passage on your own website from the text you were just reading, you can easily do so, with your citation linked to the actual paragraph that contains your quote. For example, suppose you quote the following:

"Chattel slavery is, in fact, merely the rude and primitive mode of property in man. It only grows up where population is sparse; it never, save by virtue of special circumstances, continues where the pressure of population gives land a high value, for in that case the ownership of land gives all the power that comes from the ownership of men, in more convenient form."

-- George, Henry, Social Problems, Chapter 15, "Slavery and Slavery," paragraph 3

"Paragraph 3" is hyperlinked to a target imbedded in the beginning of paragraph 3. Mouse-clicking on the link will take you not only to the chapter cited, but to the beginning of paragraph 3 of that chapter.

For those unfamiliar with imbedded targets, here are step-by-step instructions:

Copy the text you are quoting and paste it into the editor you use for your website. (You might want to delete the paragraph numbers, but don't forget what they are.)

Go back to the website and instruct your browser to view the "source" or "source code."

If word-wrap is on, turn it off.

Each paragraph will now occupy only one line. You will see the imbedded target at the beginning of each paragraph. It follows a "#". Usually the target is just "p-" and a two-digit number, identical to the paragraph number.

Under the text you are citing, type in the citation as you would in a book, with the following hyperlink code:

[name of cited text]<a href=[url]#[target]>[paragraph numbers]< /a>

For example, entering:

<a href="http://schalkenbach.org/library/george.henry/sp15.html#p-03">paragraph 3</a>

Will give you:
paragraph 3

Note: Some older text-based browsers do not imbed the links, but list them at the end of the page. It is easier for users of these browsers to make sense of a link if it is more descriptive, like the example given at the beginning of this page, than if only a paragraph number is marked as the actual hyperlink.