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Lambda at 00:58, 26 February 2018

2018-02-26T00:58:41Z

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	* Anchor names should be unique on a page, and should not duplicate any heading titles. Duplicate anchors won't work as expected since the #links go to the first anchor with that name. Duplicate anchors also result in invalid HTML, so you can check for duplicate anchors by consulting the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3C_Markup_Validation_Service W3C Markup Validation Service].		* Anchor names should be unique on a page, and should not duplicate any heading titles. Duplicate anchors won't work as expected since the #links go to the first anchor with that name. Duplicate anchors also result in invalid HTML, so you can check for duplicate anchors by consulting the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3C_Markup_Validation_Service W3C Markup Validation Service].
	* If the template is added to a section title then the code will appear in the edit summary when that section is edited, as in <nowiki>"/* {{anchor\|Issues}}Limitations */ New issue"</nowiki>. This can be fixed by deleting the template code from the edit summary before the changes are saved.		* If the template is added to a section title then the code will appear in the edit summary when that section is edited, as in <nowiki>"/* {{anchor\|Issues}}Limitations */ New issue"</nowiki>. This can be fixed by deleting the template code from the edit summary before the changes are saved.
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Lambda: Added to Template category.

2018-02-26T00:40:32Z

Added to Template category.

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	* Anchor names should be unique on a page, and should not duplicate any heading titles. Duplicate anchors won't work as expected since the #links go to the first anchor with that name. Duplicate anchors also result in invalid HTML, so you can check for duplicate anchors by consulting the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3C_Markup_Validation_Service W3C Markup Validation Service].		* Anchor names should be unique on a page, and should not duplicate any heading titles. Duplicate anchors won't work as expected since the #links go to the first anchor with that name. Duplicate anchors also result in invalid HTML, so you can check for duplicate anchors by consulting the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3C_Markup_Validation_Service W3C Markup Validation Service].
	* If the template is added to a section title then the code will appear in the edit summary when that section is edited, as in <nowiki>"/* {{anchor\|Issues}}Limitations */ New issue"</nowiki>. This can be fixed by deleting the template code from the edit summary before the changes are saved.		* If the template is added to a section title then the code will appear in the edit summary when that section is edited, as in <nowiki>"/* {{anchor\|Issues}}Limitations */ New issue"</nowiki>. This can be fixed by deleting the template code from the edit summary before the changes are saved.

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DeMatt: Added. Try not to copy crap from Wikipedia without figuring out what it needs, thanks.

2011-07-14T07:20:35Z

Added. Try not to copy crap from Wikipedia without figuring out what it needs, thanks.

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The template <nowiki>{{</nowiki>'''anchor'''<nowiki>}}</nowiki> inserts one or more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element#Anchor HTML anchors] in a page. Those locations can then be linked to using <code><nowiki>[[#link|...]]</nowiki></code> syntax.

===Examples===
1. <code style="color:green;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}|foo<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
: could be linked to with <tt><nowiki>[[#foo|...]]</nowiki></tt> from within the same article,
: or it could be linked to with <tt><nowiki>[[</nowiki>''articlename''#foo|...<nowiki>]]</nowiki></tt> from other articles and from redirects.

2. Anchors can be more suitable for inter-article linking than section titles are. For example,
:<code style="color:gray;"><nowiki>==</nowiki> <code style="color:green;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}|foo<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> Section title <nowiki>==</nowiki></code>
:Here, links via <tt><nowiki>[[</nowiki>''articlename''#foo<nowiki>]]</nowiki></tt> would remain valid even if the section were renamed.

3. The template can be used to create up to ten anchors with a single call. For example,
: <code style="color:green;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}|foo|bar|baz<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
:will create three anchors that can then be linked to with <tt><nowiki>[[#foo]]</nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki>[[#bar]]</nowiki></tt> and <tt><nowiki>[[#baz]]</nowiki></tt>.
:Specifying more than 10 anchors will cause an error message to be displayed.{{#ifeq:{{BASEPAGENAME}}|Visible anchor| 
 
4. If the text to be displayed must differ from the anchor (e.g. because it contains brackets for linking), the <code style="color:green;">text</code> parameter can be used:
: <code style="color:green;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}<nowiki>|foo|text=[[foo]]}}</nowiki></code>
: this will result in a link that constitutes an anchor of its own|}}

===Limitations===
* Anchor names that contain # (hash), | (pipe), = (equal) will not work as expected. However, the latter can be worked around with <nowiki>{{=}}</nowiki>; a redirect with "=" in its name will link properly to an anchor with <nowiki>{{=}}</nowiki>. Markup code such as <nowiki> and </nowiki> (superscript and subscript) cannot be used. Most other characters, including white space and punctuation, are not a problem.
* The template can create a maximum of 10 anchors. Specifying more than 10 anchors will result in an error message.
* Putting each anchor name on separate lines, for example
:<code style="color:green;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}
:|humpty |dumpty<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
:will probably not work as expected.
* Anchor names should be unique on a page, and should not duplicate any heading titles. Duplicate anchors won't work as expected since the #links go to the first anchor with that name. Duplicate anchors also result in invalid HTML, so you can check for duplicate anchors by consulting the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3C_Markup_Validation_Service W3C Markup Validation Service].
* If the template is added to a section title then the code will appear in the edit summary when that section is edited, as in <nowiki>"/* {{anchor|Issues}}Limitations */ New issue"</nowiki>. This can be fixed by deleting the template code from the edit summary before the changes are saved.


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