Hi, Im trying to add a link to a cta button so that when clicked the page scrolls. Unfortunatly in the cta edit I need to add a valid URL protocol to the link field. I can only add the whole url which forces the page to reload to the anchor point rather than allowing me to just add #anchorname into the link field.
Is there any way that I can use hubspot cta buttons to call a #anchorname only?
Is there a reason your trying to use a CTA for this vs a regular HTML anchor tag? CTA's are used to track views, clicks and submissions for converstion analytics. I don't see a whole lot of value using a CTA over a standard HTML anchor link for in-page navigation.
I've been able to hack this. It's not the prettiest jump-down (the page reloads quickly but starts at the anchor), but it does work. My landing page was unlikely to get organic traffic during a few minutes when I published it while unfinished, so if that's a concern for you, this may not be a solution for you.
Here's what I did for my landing page:
Create the anchor at the point down the page.
Add a CTA at the top, with the URL facing any random page.
Publish the page.
Take the published page URL and add ?#[anchor] to the end of it. Copy that text.
Edit the CTA in Hubspot so that it points to [URL]?#[anchor]. You will have to select "External page" in order to paste the URL in.
Refresh the page to test it. When you click the CTA you will see the page load again really quickly but it will jump down to the anchor.
I am trying to do this and there's a couple of reasons I need to use CTAs:
- Some of my modules have CTA blocks, so you can only select CTAs
- All my action buttons originate in CTA module, so if I need to replicate this as a regular link in order to use anchor, I need to style it identically I can't see a way to copy the styling from the CTA.
In this particular instance I want 2 CTAs side by side, 1 with a jump link and 1 with a link to a PDF, so they need to look and behave identically.
BTW I am not a coder/developer, hence trying to use Hubspot tools as much as possible.
What about the case of a single page application or a long single-page site with scrolling navigation? It also seems that it's not possible to handle the click of a CTA with a script in a way that allows the tracking functionality to be passed. It's severely limiting that CTA buttons can only be used to navigate to a different page. It is possible to use the hash navigation, but then you are still reloading the page and have the odd "jump" effect. Having the ability to send the tracking via a script API and handle the click, or at least the ability to use a relative URL would be incredibly useful in terms of flexibility.
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