Template:Visible anchor
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The template {{Visible anchor}} ({{vanchor}} for short) inserts one or more HTML anchors in a page. Those locations can then be linked to using [[#link|...]] syntax. Unlike {{Anchor}}, the first parameter will be visible text on the page.
Examples change
1. {{vanchor|foo}}
- Visible as: foo
- Linkable as:
[[#foo|...]]from within the same article,[[articlename#foo|...]]from other articles and from redirects.
2. The template can be used to create up to ten anchors with a single call. For example,
{{vanchor|foo|bar|baz}}- Visible as: foo
- Linkable as:
[[#foo]],[[#bar]]and[[#baz]].
Limitations change
- Anchor names that contain
- will not work as expected. However, any of these characters can be replaced with the "&#" codes shown for them here. Or, the pipe symbol and equals sign can be worked around with {{[[Template:|||]]}} and {{=}}, respectively. Markup code such as
<sup>and<sub>(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.
- As with other templates which use positional parameters, putting each anchor name on separate lines, will not work as expected. for example:
{{vanchor
|humpty<br />dumpty}}
- 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; you can check for duplicate anchors by running the page through the 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 "/* {{vanchor|Limitations|Issues}} */ New issue". This can be fixed by replacing the template code with its first parameter in the edit summary before the changes are saved: "/* Limitations */ New issue".
aliases change
Related pages change
- {{Anchor}}
- {{Anchored list}}
- {{Shortcut}}