Spec: Table of Contents

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

@alefattorini

Can we automatically create a TOC easily now?

Automatic TOC generation is a difficult problem to solve. There’s more discussion about this in the aforementioned feature topic:

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…