Skip Link Demo

by Michael Ball

HTML

<nav>
  <a href="#main-content" class="skiplink button">Skip to content</a>
  <span style="margin-left: 100px">
    ...some nav content...
  </span>
</nav>
<main id="main-content" style="margin: 1em">
  Your cool app goes here!
</main>

CSS

/* Hidden offscreen by default */
.skiplink {
  position: absolute;
  left: -9999em;
}

.skiplink:focus {
  left: 0;
}

/* Some styling just to be realistic */  
nav {
  height: 24px;
  background-color: #EEE;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #DDD;
  padding: 8px;
  vertical-align: middle;
}
.button,
.button:visited {
  display: inline-block;
  border-radius: 4px;
  padding: 6px;
  border: 1px solid #CCC;
  background-color: gray;
  color: white
}