Cannot deep link to anchor in text

[prostasia (Prostasia Foundation)]

I have followed the instructions on this page in order to link directly to headings in my post, including using the special heading-- format for the link, eg. heading–h.pv1t5s7p1t7x:

Deep Linking to Headings (Anchors)

(as of 29 May 2020) Unfortunately there is currently no standard markdown way of creating a heading with an anchor, so if you wish to link directly to an anchor in a post, you have to use regular HTML. Simply create a heading with an id that begins with heading-- like so: <h3 id='heading--link-to-me'>Link to me</h3> And then any time you link to the post, you can add #heading--link-to-me in the URL and it’ll jump directly to that spot once it loads. (To prevent abuse of styling on the site, y…

However, it’s not working:

Prostasia Foundation role documentation

Any advice? Thanks!

[JammyDodger]

I use this as a manual anchor code:

<a name="header-name"></a>

#header-name (for in-post)

https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-deep-link-to-anchor-in-text/212393/2#header-name (for if you want to use the link outside the topic)

Eg - https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-deep-link-to-anchor-in-text/212393/2#header-name

There’s also the DiscoTOC theme component that might be worth a look?

DiscoTOC - automatic table of contents

This is a theme component that will allow you to generate an interactive table of contents for your topics with one click! Samples Desktop [desktop] Mobile [mobile] Features toc = table of contents Automatically generates the entire toc via a button in the composer gear menu The toc will always be on the screen - scrolls with content like the topic progress widget As you scroll past sections in the topic, the active element in the table of contents will be set to active (blue h…

[Moin]

You can also try to user the automatic header anchor feature

# headline1
### headline3
##### headline5

headline1

headline3

headline5

Link to headline1 https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-deep-link-to-anchor-in-text/212393/3#headline1-1

[JammyDodger]

That’s good. I was tricked into thinking that they no longer worked when I couldn’t grab the header-link by clicking on one.

[Moin]

You need to click at the gap in front of the headline.

[JammyDodger]

I used to tap on the header, and a link icon would appear on the left of it that I could then grab the link from, but it no longer does that. Tapping on the gap doesn’t seem to do anything?

Edit: I spoke too soon. I’m with you now. Long-pressing on the gap does the job. I was waiting for a link icon to show up. Thank you.

My only issue with the auto-one is that adding another header in later throws of the header numbers in the existing links, so you need to be careful if it’s a document that’s prone to additions/deletions.