Questions tagged [anchor]
For questions about the (possible) use of anchors (hyperlinks to a certain position on a webpage) on Stack Exchange.
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Support anchor names in posts
I admit this feature request is probably somewhat limited in useful scope, but I'm throwing it out there anyway. Inspired by this answer, and because I want to use it on this one, I'm requesting that ...
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Add anchors to privilege pages
Now and then I want to support a Meta answer with a link to information about a certain privilege from the Help Center. However, some detail pages are actually about a group of related privileges and ...
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Add anchors to the how-to-ask and how-to-answer pages
Often, when I cite the How to Ask or How to Answer pages, I'm mostly pointing out one particular paragraph (usually “Provide context for links”). So I'd like to write [please summarize the contents of ...
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Can we have anchors for the bullets in the [help/on-topic] list?
Currently, in EL&U's help center, the on-topic page lists a number of topics we can't address on the site:
But please, don’t ask any questions about the following topics. They are out of scope ...
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Add anchors to the top of each revision element on the timeline pages
While in response to the request Add anchors to revisions it is apparent that there is a link to each revision. I often prefer to link to a revision within the context of the entire timeline of the ...
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Linking to subheaders of a help center page
Could we add the ability to link to subheaders in a site's help center? Sometimes it would be nice to be able to reference a specific part of a page so one's audience doesn't have to search around.
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Please use anchors on the SE blog
On a number of occasions now I've found myself referring to blog posts containing site policy or usage guidelines, and wanting to refer to specific sections in them (e.g. point 2 in these editing ...
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Add discoverable anchor links to the FAQ
I wanted to post a comment with a link to a particular piece in the FAQ and it seems there is no way to link to say "What is reputation?" or "How do I ask questions here?" parts of the FAQ.
I think ...
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Add anchors to the user pages
Would be nice in many cases to link directly to every section in a user page one wants to point out.
For instance, in discussions on upvote/downvote ratios, users that are outliers are sometimes ...
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Chat FAQ section-specific links don't expand, essentially hiding information [duplicate]
Just now I was searching for official information on the criteria for chatrooms to be frozen or deleted, in order to help a user who was asking about it.
The auto-message notifying that a room has ...
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Leagues top bar overlaps row after following the link [duplicate]
When you go from a user page (for example https://stackoverflow.com/users/14928633/kirogasa) by clicking link:
to the rating page (https://stackexchange.com/leagues/1/quarter/stackoverflow/2022-10-01/...
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Make a link to another answer in the same question without reloading [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Please make links to other answers in the same question link to the anchor instead of the full URL
Proposed Solution
Same idea from the duplicate, but less words and a ...
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Add anchors to Winter Bash FAQ [closed]
It would be nice to be able to link to specific questions (with their answers) in the Winter Bash FAQ. Especially this year, as the banner image takes almost the entire screen (on my MacBook Pro 13&...
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Inserting anchor tag into StackOverflow [duplicate]
How do we insert anchor-tags, or any other non-runnable HTML into a Stack-Overflow answer?
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Problem posting links [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Links to URLs containing parentheses
Please improve the auto-linking to allow square and round brackets
I tried posting the following link in a post on Stack Overflow.
http:...
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A link to each answer at the top - Feature Request
I would like to propose putting link pointers to each answer at the start of the answers section. This would be in the style of a contents page.
By looking at the link description, one can directly ...
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