Inlink the topics within the same article

[Monika_Gupta]

Hi …I want to link the topics within the same article, just like in Google Docs (Bookmark option). Is this possible in Discourse?
Kindly help.

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

pasting a link in the composer links to the topic

e.g.
Inlink the topics within the same article

[Monika_Gupta]

Hi Bhanu…If i want to create a Table of contents for the article so that if a person clicks on any topic it will directly scroll down to that topic…is that possible?

[tomtjes (Thomas Reintjes)]

It’s supposed to become easier with the upcoming Discourse 2.6

@codinghorror

Automatically add anchor link IDs to markdown headers

but for now, follow this guide:

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…

You could also use the DiscoTOC theme component.

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…

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

You can create table in excel and paste it in Discourse. A more native way would be to create table in markdown