URI fragment

A fragment identifier is added to a URI (and thus to a URL) for locally adressing parts of a document. The interpretation of the fragment depends on the type of ressource and the application that parses it. It is separeted 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) should employ an XPointer, returning all XML-elements named "Rube" from the file "schmoo.xml" on foobar.org

see also

World Wide Web Consortium