Special Templates / Anchor

An HTML Anchor is a name for a point on a page formatted in HTML.

The anchor template special:anchor allows you to add HTML anchor tags (<a name=''>) to a wiki page. This can be useful to have named (and stable) link targets.

Parameters

The template has one anonymous parameter: the name of the anchor.

Format: the anchor name has to be a valid wiki pagename, i.e. no spaces, only chars and numbers. The anchor name must not use names which are generated automatically (e.g. 'diag12', 'toc3', 'r4', '2'.) Furthermore the anchor name must not start with an uppercase letter (lowercase letter or number is fine.)

Examples

{{special:anchor | coolSection }}

results in

(well there's nothing to see here, but if you look at the HTML code^[1], you see the anchor being inserted :o)

Linking to anchors

Once an anchor is defined you can link to it, like you link to other HTML anchors in the page:

• from within the same page:
  • [#coolsection] results in ^{[coolSection]}
  • [some text | #coolSection] results in some text
• from another page:
  • [Special Templates / Anchor #coolSection] results in Special Templates / Anchor#coolSection
  • or named link again: [some text | SpecialTemplates/table#coolSection] results in some text

See also Linking to parts of pages on the page Text Formatting Rules.

Notes

• The anchor name is case sensitive! Be sure to spell the links correctly.
• In order to find out which other pages use a specific anchor go to AdvancedFindPage, put the anchor name (including the hash, e.g. #coolSection) into the field "Full text" and put the pagename into the field "Links to page".

[1] Try selecting the text around ‘results in’, right-clicking and choosing ‘View selection source’.