Fragment identifier

A fragment identifier is added to a URI (and thus to a URL) for locally addressing parts of a document. The interpretation of the fragment depends on the type of ressource and the application that parses it. It is separated from the URI with a single character, usually an hash #

Examples

• In HTML applications, www.foobar.org/schmoo.html#tag1 will refer to the html-element containing the "anchor"-attribute name="tag1"

• In XML applications, www.foobar.org/schmoo.xml#xpointer(//Rube)<code> should employ an XPointer, returning all XML-elements named "Rube" from the file "schmoo.xml" on foobar.org

• World Wide Web Consortium