How to get Anchors to work?

[tobias.fielitz]

Added an anchor, shows up as grey box, but

1. it doesn't have a label, so is completely invisible

2. doesn't work

I've named the anchor "foo" and published the page afterwards. Navigating to the page using https://<url to page>#foo doesn't do anything.

[Fabienne Gerhard · Accepted solution]

Hi @tobias.fielitz - Anchors can be tricky sometimes (believe me - I made my experiences...)

did you check out 'view source' - this will show your site with content and all macros/addons on the page. There you will see if your anchor named 'foo' will appear. 

Should look something like that:

Next thing is - from where did you try to link to the anchor? If you're linking from another space your link must look something link 

spacekey:page name#anchor name

Now when I look on your example that might be the problem - do you want to send an direct link to someone? I have no idea how to generate them - my trick is - I create a link on page links-advanced to the anchor (like it's shown above) use this link and use the generated adress from browser.

The link contains something like the
/url/display/space/title(which might be tricky if special characters or spaces are used)/#titlewrittentogether-anchorname

[tobias.fielitz]

Hi Fabienne, Thanks for the reply.

I would indeed like to link from an external source (from a comment in the code to be exact). 

The process you describe seems far too complex to achieve such a common (and simple!) thing :(

[Fabienne Gerhard]

Hi Tobias - than do the easy way - create the external link on a page for yourself (I have a page I just for myself in my personal space) where you create the advanced link

spacekey: page name#anchor name 

->  click this link -> this opens the anchor link -> copy the adress from browser and use this 

Shouldn't take you more than 1 minute I guess

I just wanted to show you how tricky it would be to create the link by your own by showing you all the parts ;)

Hope this works out for you!

[tobias.fielitz]

it did, ty