Can Anchors Link Within A Single Note?

JustEthan · 2024-07-28T22:12:38.287Z

Operating system

Windows 11

Joplin version

3.0.14

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Joplin 3.0.14 (prod, win32)

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Revision: 05cf51e

Advanced Tagging Rules: 1.4.0
Backup: 1.4.1
Conflict Resolution: 1.2.3
Copy Anchor Link: 1.1.0
Insert Date: 1.0.1
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Note Link System: 0.8.0
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What issue do you have?

I've seen several posts about linking to headings on other notes with anchors, but is there a way to link to different spots in the same note? I tried using a link from the Copy Anchor plugin, but was still only able to jump to headings if they were in a note that was different from the one that had the link in it.

annoyedhumanoid · 2024-07-29T00:32:57.504Z

Yes. If you give an element an ID, say foo (using HTML, I don’t think there’s a way in markdown), you can link to it by making the link's URL #foo.

Example:

<span id="foo">Anchor</span>

[Link to anchor](#foo)
<a href="#foo">Link 2</a>

JustEthan · 2024-07-29T03:15:26.615Z

Awesome, thank you! Looks like I'm going to need to start learning HTML so that I can do more stuff, I didn't even know this was possible.

hieuthi · 2024-07-29T06:14:50.279Z

You can use “Copy Anchor Link” plugin to get the link that used within the same note. The type of link that you’re looking for is LI or LH which are hidden by default. It looks something like this [Welcome to Joplin!](#welcome-to-joplin). To enable it you can check the information on github.

github.com

GitHub - hieuthi/joplin-plugin-copy-anchor-link: Add a link icon near each heading. Copy Joplin...

Add a link icon near each heading. Copy Joplin markdown link of the specific heading to clipboard when click on the icon.

petersuber · 2024-07-31T18:47:55.334Z

This method works for me.

But note that it's not necessary to create span IDs manually. If you use headers (H1, H2, H3, etc.), Joplin automatically creates an internal anchor for each. If you have a header for "Chapter Three", then its internal anchor is "#Chapter_Three". From experimenting, the anchor text is case insensitive and the delimiter char can be a hyphen or underscore, for example "#chapter_three" or "#chapter-three". You could link to it with [Chapter Three](#chapter_three).

JustEthan · 2024-08-01T21:48:10.942Z

Oh, I didn't realize that those had to be enabled. Thank you!

petersuber · 2024-08-08T15:31:00.399Z

Updating my post above. The anchor text is case-insensitive but the delimiter char must be a hyphen.

system · 2024-09-07T15:31:51.168Z

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