Hey community, I am using a discourse site to publish some specs that are primarily written in markdown, but I came to the problem that the anchors used for the headers are being rendered, while they should be hidden. Does anyone know if there is a way to hide them? [image]

Hey, welcome! Is this syntax from kramdown or PHP Markdown Extra ? Discourse relies on MarkdownIt , which is based on CommonMark spec. It doesn’t support specifying a header ID. It seems that they discussed it at some point: Anchors in markdown - Spec - CommonMark Discussion , but I don’t see any de…

Thanks a lot @Arkshine ! The issue is more because we are publishing the markdowns used for other reasons in discourse as well, so the people who keep the documents use these anchors for cross-reference when merging multiple markdowns in a single document. I think I will make some sort of script to…

@Nihokam If you’re still interested, I made a tiny Discourse plugin that handles specifying an anchor ID next to the heading. https://github.com/Arkshine/discourse-custom-anchor-id It works alongside Discourse’s automatic heading anchors. Note that it’s basic support. There are probably a lot of…

Thanks @Arkshine ! I will check with our discourse adm about using it :grin:

[image] Arkshine: Essentially, you can expect those IDs: h-{headingId} (no post ID, no slug) h-{slug}-{headingId} (no post ID) p-{postId}-h-{headingId} (post ID, no slug) p-{postId}-h-{slug}-{headingId} (post ID, slug) @Arkshine Do you know how anchors in Discourse (the current website) are…

Handling anchors in posts created with markdown

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Arkshine January 29, 2025, 2:30pm 4

I see!

The solution is also to make a plugin for Discourse with a markdown plugin to support this syntax. If you have some budget, you could ask Marketplace.

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