Add the possibility of linking and refering to article headlines

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Linking Accessibility

What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

Currently there are no possibility of refering/linking to a particular headline of an article. I would like to add links that would navigate one to a particular area of an article. As an example, I have an organisation article about a specific organised religion, within that article I have a section about their tenets of faith. I would like to, in other article, create a link that doesn't just refer to the organisation article, but to the tenets of faith. There are a lot of snippets of articles that aren't big enough to be their own article, and should continue to be part of larger articles, but are far enough down, that linking to the over all article seems wrong.

How does this feature request address the current situation?

By adding this feature you can link to the relevant passages of articles rather than linking to the whole article.

What are other uses for this feature request?

This feature could be used in a multitude of things, do you want to refer directly to the morality of a character? Link to that headline; want to highlight the architecture of a city? Link to that headline; the climax of a story? Link to that headline! There are so many times this would be a useful feature, and the fact that the list of contents have usable links for headlines indicate the possiblity of making them generally referable outside of the particular article.

Follow up

As both Pete Nelson and WriterV has pointed out ancors are a thing (that I didn't know about, eventhough I've been on that particular page 100s of times, so that's an oversight form my side). I still think it would be nice if they were easilier implementable than what ancors are, as it can be a bothersome process having to go to the source article, write in the anchor, copy the link to the article, and then link to the article with the case-sensitive anchor-#.

Current score

11/300 Votes · +1802 points

Votes Cast

+100

by SebGreg732
on 2024-04-02 22:17
+100

by Javak
on 2024-04-02 07:01
+100

by Mahdi Avendesora
on 2024-03-26 09:21
+1

by Amancham
on 2024-03-21 16:17
+100

by Pete Nelson
on 2024-03-18 00:15
As WriterV pointed out, you can do this already using the URL of the article within BBCode for that and including the # notation in the URL to link to the specific location in the article. That being said, it isn't that easy to do, so creating a way to do so more easily would be handy.
+1

by WriterV
on 2024-03-17 19:13
I'm guessing what you want exists and is described here: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/WorldAnvilCodex/a/bbcode#anchors
+300

by phre3d
on 2024-03-17 16:38
+300

by A Fierce Velociraptor
on 2024-03-17 04:32
Definitely is something I would use! Support!
+300

by eldknighterrant
on 2024-03-17 01:11
I assume this is referring to the article headings. :) That said, as a writer of lengthy articles myself, I'm all for this!
+100

by tjtrewin
on 2024-03-15 13:36
+100

by WeStanNikolai
on 2024-03-15 13:23
I don't know how this would be implemented, necessarily, but I feel like this could be very useful! And maybe it could be possible in connection with the articletoc bbcode, as you said :)
+300

by HelenaHuman
on 2024-03-15 09:53