Content navigational shortcuts for portal environments

A content navigational shortcut data processing system comprising:

• a computing platform comprising an operating system executing in memory of the computing platform and supporting a content browser operating in the operating system;
• a plurality of user interface elements disposed in a markup language defined user interface displayed in the content browser;
• a plurality of anchors, each anchor corresponding to one of the user interface elements;
• and,
• a quicklink list disposed in the markup language defined user interface, the quicklink list comprising a reference to one of the user interface elements, the quicklink list being coupled to quicklink logic comprising program code enabled to set focus to the one of the user interface elements in the markup language defined user interface responsive to an activation of the reference.

A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer usable program code for managing content navigational shortcuts, the computer program product including:

• computer usable program code for associating a plurality of anchors with corresponding user interface elements in a markup language defined display;
• computer usable program code for listing references to a subset of the user interface elements in a quicklink list in the markup language defined display;
• and,
• computer usable program code for responsive to an activation of one of the references in the quicklink list, setting focus in the markup language defined display to a corresponding one of the user interface elements at an associated one of the anchors.