HTML standards for "in-page" navigation

Question

Hi,

I was wondering, is there any (hidden) standard for navigation within a web page? What I mean is, we all know that many, many pages have a search box (powered by Google, Bing or custom) for searching within the site. Is there a keyboard shortcut standard for accessing directly to the search box? In addition, usually when results are returned to the client, the user has to page through the results. Is there standard for paging results too? you know, it can be very convenient to be able to go to the next result set, previous, first, last... or perhaps even a specific page number in the result set. Is this feasible at all to go into a standard?

Thanks, Avi

Answer 1

Is there a keyboard shortcut standard for accessing directly to the search box?

No, just accesskey, which has drawbacks.

Is there standard for paging results too?

Just conventions, such as Yahoo!'s Search Pagination Pattern

it can be very convenient to be able to go to the next result set, previous, first, last... or perhaps even a specific page number in the result set

The rel attribute, specifically the start, next and prev values

Answer 2

HTML5 has a special tag for navigation elements.

Look at: http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_nav.asp