anchors Property

Returns an IHTMLElementCollection object that represents all of the bookmarks in a document. Bookmarks are <A> tags that have an associated name attribute.

expression.anchors

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Remarks

The anchors property returns only bookmarks, which are <A> tags that have the name attribute. Use the links property to return a collection of hyperlinks, which are <A> tags that have the href attribute.

Example

The following example returns an array of strings that represent the names of bookmarks in the specified document.

    Function GetBookmarks(objDoc As FPHTMLDocument) As String()
    Dim objAnchors As IHTMLElementCollection
    Dim objAnchor As FPHTMLAnchorElement
    Dim intCount As Integer
    Dim strBookmarks() As String
    
    Set objAnchors = objDoc.anchors
    ReDim strBookmarks(objAnchors.Length - 1)
    
    For intCount = 0 To objAnchors.Length - 1
        Set objAnchor = objAnchors.Item(intCount)
        
        If objAnchor.Name <> "" Then
            strBookmarks(intCount) = objAnchor.Name
        Else
            strBookmarks(intCount) = objAnchor.Id
        End If
    Next
    
    GetBookmarks = strBookmarks
End Function
  

Use the following code to call the preceding subroutine.

    Sub CallGetBookmarks()
    Dim strBookmarks() As String
    Dim strBookmark As String
    Dim intCount As Integer

    On Error Resume Next
    
    strBookmarks = GetBookmarks(ActiveDocument)
    
    For intCount = 0 To UBound(strBookmarks)
        strBookmark = strBookmark & strBookmarks(intCount) & vbCrLf
    Next
    
    MsgBox strBookmark
End Sub