Let's say I've got a page set up about cats. In that, I've got a few paragraphs about different kinds of cats. Those paragraphs are set up in the following format: == Main Coone == text == Siamese == text , etcetera.
How would I be able to make a link on another page that links directly to one of those paragraphs? I've tried [[Siamese]], but that doesn't work of course. That simply throws me to a page that doesn't exist yet.
How would I be able to make a link on another page that links directly to one of those paragraphs?
[[Page_name#section_name|link title]] cf. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Section#Section_linking
HTH.
-- F.
2007/6/30, Willem-Jan van Strien wjvs@xs4all.nl:
Let's say I've got a page set up about cats. In that, I've got a few paragraphs about different kinds of cats. Those paragraphs are set up in the following format: == Main Coone == text == Siamese == text , etcetera.
How would I be able to make a link on another page that links directly to one of those paragraphs? I've tried [[Siamese]], but that doesn't work of course. That simply throws me to a page that doesn't exist yet.
If the page is called - e.g - "Cats", then something along the lines of [[Cats#Siamese]] should work.
This only works if you have a table of contents on the page and, of course, can be problematic if someone changes the name of the heading, but if you are willing to accept these limitations:
The table of contents will automatically create heading tags on a page for reference. These tags will be in the form of underscore replacing spaces in headings. For example
== Test Heading ==
Would create a tag:
Test_Heading
So on a page where you have more than 4 headings and/or forced creation of a TOC named Test Page, you could create a reference as
[[Test Page#Test_Heading]]
This is pretty crude, but could work
Jack D. Pond
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Let's say I've got a page set up about cats. In that, I've got a few paragraphs about different kinds of cats. Those paragraphs are set up in the following format: == Main Coone == text == Siamese == text , etcetera.
How would I be able to make a link on another page that links directly to one of those paragraphs? I've tried [[Siamese]], but that doesn't work of course. That simply throws me to a page that doesn't exist yet.
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Jack D. Pond wrote:
This only works if you have a table of contents on the page
Totally untrue, it does work on pages without any table of contents ;-) (just tested on local)
2007/7/1, Jack D. Pond jack.pond@psitex.com:
The table of contents will automatically create heading tags on a page for reference. These tags will be in the form of underscore replacing spaces in headings. For example
== Test Heading ==
Would create a tag:
Test_Heading
So on a page where you have more than 4 headings and/or forced creation of a TOC named Test Page, you could create a reference as
[[Test Page#Test_Heading]]
You don't actually need to convert the spaces to underscores yourself; writing
[[Test Page#Test Heading]]
will also work (and the same's true for other special characters; no need to worry about those).
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