Status of anchor link bug

[Rob_Waters]

Continuing the discussion from Intra-post anchor links don't work in Safari / Firefox:

What is the status on this issue? Hyperlinks with anchors don’t work, and when you include the whole URL in the post body, Discourse automatically converts it to a hyperlink that also doesn’t work. The only solution I’ve found is to include the whole URL and use the preformatted text option so it can be copied & pasted, which obviously isn’t ideal.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

It has been on our feature backlog for the last two releases. It’s a feature request, not a bug; this has never worked, nor was it supposed to.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Good news, @eviltrout will be scoping this out tomorrow, hopefully.

[eviltrout (Robin Ward)]

Update we have some anchor support now:

Link to a heading within a post or topic

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