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:

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…