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Request: Headings and footnotes act as link anchors

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Inspired by the change log but certainly not limited to that one post.

Many times I find myself writing an answer which goes on for quite a bit, and I find it natural to break it up with # Headers. Sometimes I find that what I wrote on question A contains material which is helpful for question B as well. If it's a sufficiently long answer, it might be helpful to link not to the answer itself, but rather to the specific section of the answer.

Proposal: Can headers double as link anchors, so that linking to, for instance, /a/12345#1 links to the first heading, /a/12345#2 links to the second heading, /a/12345/1#1 links to the first subheading under the first heading, etc.? (Or at least just top-level headings?) Maybe similar for footnotes, where linking to /a/12345#f1 links to the first footnote?

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You are accessing this answer with a direct link, so it's being shown above all other answers regardless of its activity. You can return to the normal view.

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Using numbers as references to the Nth heading is a bad idea. When a heading gets added or deleted, all the links out there will be wrong.

If this is going to happen at all, it makes more sense to use the existing id="name" attributes on heading tags. That's already a well-defined standard.

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Fancy Heading

This is technically already possible using HTML: just add an id attribute to your header tags:

<h1 id="fancy-heading">Fancy Heading</h1>

Going to /questions/123456#fancy-heading will now send you straight to that heading - even if it's in an answer.

Given that this is already possible and adding it to the Markdown renderer isn't that easy, we'll leave it as-is for now, but we may be able to revisit once we've hit MVP.

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