Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] TOC extension anchor links

[Jay L. <lb...@re...>]

*facepalm*

Sorry, it's been so long since I had to write HTML I forgot how named
anchors work. HeaderId is what I want.

--jay

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Waylan Limberg <wa...@gm...> wrote:
> Jay,
>
> The TOC Extension already has a config setting (anchorlink) which
> defaults to off. According to the commit history, it has been there
> since the extension was first added to Markdown.
>
> If you just want ids automatically assigned to headers, I would
> suggest the HeaderId [1] Extension which does just that. In fact, the
> TOC extension imports the id assignment functionality from the
> HeaderId extension - but has no anchors.
>
> [1]: http://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/extensions/header_id.html
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> Waylan Limberg
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Jay Luker <lb...@re...> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm wanting to use the TOC extension to generate anchor links for
>> section headers to facilitate linking to sections of a document. (I'm
>> not actually using the TOC itself yet, but I might eventually). I find
>> the current behavior of wrapping the anchor tag around the header text
>> odd, and I'm kind of scratching my head at who would want that. What
>> is the use case for headers that link to themselves?
>>
>> Anyhow, I was going to propose maybe a new config option to control
>> this. Happy to submit a pull request.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --jay
>>
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