Help:Anchors
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- See also Help:Link#Anchors.
An anchor is a link to a specific portion of a page.
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Setting anchors
- headers automatically become html anchors, which can be linked to.
- The <a> tag is not allowed in MediaWiki, so we can't do the <a name="link here">, but we can do the "id" html attribute to almost any existing tag. For example, <div id="what_to_link_to">text</div> or <div id="what_to_link_to"/>text.
Referencing anchors
inside a regular wiki link [[page#anchor_name|shown_up_as]], include the hash sign (#) and the header name or the id tag name as you have written it.
Linking to a position in an external page
The HTML source of the target page needs to have <a name=..> or <.. id=..> at the target item as anchor to link to. Thus linking to a position in an external page for which this is not the case yet, one needs control over the target page, or cooperation of one who has.
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