does fireball markdown support anchor links?

[Fletcher T. Penney]

Perhaps I misunderstood the original question, but on the chance I was correct….


I think the problem is not creating the link [link text](#anchor) which is standard Markdown, but rather having something to link *to*.


For example:

	# Heading #

	This will create an active link to the [heading](#heading).


If this is what you meant, then this was something I added to MultiMarkdown and I imagine other implementations have also done similar things (and GFM is one of them).  I called them "cross-references", but I'm sure others called them different things as well.  In standard Markdown, the above link would not work, as there would not be an anchor target named "#heading".

<http://fletcher.github.io/MultiMarkdown-4/cross-references.html>


If I'm wrong, and David correctly understood your question then just ignore me….  ;)


Fletcher



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On Jul 8, 2015, at 5:49 PM, David Chambers <dc at davidchambers.me> wrote:

> Yes. This is a standard part of Markdown.
> 
> On 8 July 2015 at 14:21, Alice Williams <awilliams at machinezone.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to get the same HTML anchor links like this:
> 
> <a href = "#anchorname">Link text</a>
> 
> <a name="anchorname"></a>
> 
> the gitlab version of markdown supports these links this way:
> 
> [link text](#anchor)
> 
> Heading <a name="anchor"></a>
> 
> but this does not work with fireball version of markdown.
> 
> thanks for any suggestions!
> Alice
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