# External link to an anchor
**URL:** https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/external-link-to-an-anchor/31742
**Category:** Features
**Created:** [15 July 2023 09:08 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/external-link-to-an-anchor/31742 "2023-07-15T09:08:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@chentao](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/chentao)
#### Post date: [15 July 2023 09:08 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/external-link-to-an-anchor/31742/1 "2023-07-15T09:08:36Z")
Hi,
Are external links to an anchor supported ?
I tried :
```auto
[[Some text>>url:joplin://x-callback-url/openNote?id=3be2889f7f874730a7ef3dd065f3002f#test]].
```
but the `#test` part isn't working, the links always opens the note at the beginning.
Note : the anchor in the note is correctly set, because internal links to it work fine.
Is my syntax incorrect, or are external links to an anchor not supported ?
Versions : Joplin 2.11.11 / Debian 11
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### Author:  [@roman\_r\_m](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/roman_r_m)
#### Post date: [15 July 2023 09:29 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/external-link-to-an-anchor/31742/2 "2023-07-15T09:29:24Z")
External links to an anchor are not supported.
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### Author:  [@executed](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/executed)
#### Post date: [8 December 2024 23:27 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/external-link-to-an-anchor/31742/3 "2024-12-08T23:27:14Z")
Maybe anything has changed here? 🙂
Where can I find the logic in the code?
Is it going to bring any security issues if implemented?
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### Author:  [@executed](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/executed)
#### Post date: [9 December 2024 22:07 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/external-link-to-an-anchor/31742/4 "2024-12-09T22:07:07Z")
Even though I think I found an easy fix in the code - it's very hard to test this for 2 reasons:
1. When building project locally I don't understand how to trigger external link so that it hits my dev instance and not main instance;
2. There is a horrible bug when you follow a anchor link it first scrolls to right anchor, but then suddenly jumps back to the top - based on my findings it's scroll position restoring code in index.html.