Reading the Number of Anchors
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>document.anchors Property</TITLE> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> function goNextAnchor(where) { window.location.hash = where } </SCRIPT> </HEAD> <BODY> <A NAME="start"><H1>Top</H1></A> <FORM> <INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="next" VALUE="NEXT" onClick="goNextAnchor('sec1')"> </FORM> <HR> <A NAME="sec1"><H1>Section 1</H1></A> <FORM> <INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="next" VALUE="NEXT" onClick="goNextAnchor('sec2')"> </FORM> <HR> <A NAME="sec2"><H1>Section 2</H1></A> <FORM> <INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="next" VALUE="NEXT" onClick="goNextAnchor('sec3')"> </FORM> <HR> <A NAME="sec3"><H1>Section 3</H1></A> <FORM> <INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="next" VALUE="BACK TO TOP" onClick="goNextAnchor('start')"> </FORM> <HR><P> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> document.write("<I>There are " + document.anchors.length + " anchors defined for this document</I>") </SCRIPT> </BODY> </HTML>