meaning of "#" within a URL

Does anyone know the meaning of "#" within a URL ?

I have seen URLs where "#" is being used a separator of some kind, similar
to how "&" is used ...

Is this meaningful within HTTP itself ? Or has the website just been coded
to parse the "#" ?"John A Grandy" <johnagrandy-at-yahoo-dot-comwrote in message
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Does anyone know the meaning of "#" within a URL ?

Yes - it means "open the document specified immediately before the hash
symbol and jump to the anchor tag with the name specified immediately after
the hash symbol".

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I have seen URLs where "#" is being used a separator of some kind, similar
to how "&" is used ...

Not really - in URLs, the ampersand is typically used to separate elements
in a QueryString.

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Is this meaningful within HTTP itself?

Not as such - HTTP simply transfers the entire HTML stream down to the
browser. It is the browser itself which then "jumps" to the named anchor
tag.

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Or has the website just been coded to parse the "#" ?

No - see the link below for further details:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html
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