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Anchor

By Stephen Chapman, About.com

Definition: An Anchor object is automatically created for each of the anchor points on a web page (ie. all <a name="anchorname" id="anchorname">). This is not a reserved word so you can declare your own variable or function called Anchor but if you do then you will not be able to access the anchors on the page from Javascript.
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