The TOC component generates header element id attrs based on the header text. Here’s a header for example. main outlet The spacing comes from the styles applied to #main-outlet, which is a Discourse app element having nothing to do with this post. This isn’t the end of the world if I could spec…

@Johani what do you think of this ?

[image] guildai: Personally I think Discourse should NOT strip element id attrs [image] guildai: Unfortunately, Discourse removes id attrs from post elements before the above code is run so the logic is thwarted. Here’s a header that uses <h4 id="alt-main-outlet">main outlet</h4> : If…

[image] Johani: There are no plans to patch this up in the component right now since automatic id generation is on our list of features for the next release of Discourse and we plan to address the issue of duplicate headings by adding the heading’s index to its id. That makes sense. Thanks fo…

TOC component and header IDs

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guildai (Garrett) July 6, 2020, 12:56pm 4

That makes sense. Thanks for the detailed explanation!

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TOC component and header IDs

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