[Mediawiki-l] Linking to page sections

[Tim Ware]

On Dec 9, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Kasimir Gabert wrote:

> Anchors work in HTML through the name attribute on an <a tag.  This
> means that if you want to have a link to "Earp, Wyatt (1848-1929)",
> you need to have something such as
>
> <a name="EW1">&nbsp;</a>'''Earp, Wyatt (1848-1929)'''<br />
>
> Because MediaWiki does not allow HTML's <a> tags directly (and you do
> not want that), then you can make a simple extension such as the
> following:
>
> http://www.kgprog.com/anchors.php.txt
>
>

I think then that I'll just stay with using <div id=""></div> to mark  
anchors on pages.

Thanks.

Tim

> On 12/9/06, Tim Ware <tim at hyperarts.com> wrote:
>> Running v1.8.2.
>>
>> My pages are like an index, with the first line of each entry being,
>> for example:
>>
>> Earp, Wyatt (1848-1929)
>>
>> If I set this as a header of any type, I can link to it by specifying
>>
>> [[#Earp, Wyatt (1848-1929)]]
>>
>> My Question: Entering links from other pages to the Earp section of
>> its page, can I use a shortened version of the link call? It's too
>> cumbersome for users to have to enter an entire link title, so I'm
>> wondering if there's a shorthand as to how to markup the header or
>> change to link to that header?
>>
>> I'm considering this approach instead of how I'm now doing it, which
>> is each entry title is just bolded and assigned an ID via a div:
>>
>> <div id="earp">'''Earp, Wyatt (1848-1929)'''<br />
>>
>> Thanks. Tim
>>
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