Template:Visible anchor

Template documentation

The template {{visible anchor}} ({{vanchor}} for short) inserts one or more HTML anchors in a page. Those locations can then be linked to using [[#link|...]] syntax. Unlike {{Anchor}}, the first parameter will be visible text on the page.

Examples

1. {{vanchor|foo}}

Visible as: foo

Linkable as: [[#foo|...]] from within the same article, [[articlename#foo|...]] from other articles and from redirects.

2. The template can be used to create up to ten anchors with a single call. For example,

{{vanchor|foo|bar|baz}}

Visible as: foo

Linkable as:[[#foo]], [[#bar]] and [[#baz]].

Limitations

• Anchor names that contain
  • # (hash, $)
  • | (pipe, |)
  • = (equals, =)
  • " (straight double quote, ")

will not work as expected. However, any of these characters can be replaced with the "&#" codes shown for them here. Or, the pipe symbol and equals sign can be worked around with {{[[Template:|||]]}} and {{}}, respectively. Markup code such as <sup></sup> and <sub></sub> (superscript and subscript) cannot be used. Most other characters, including white space and punctuation, are not a problem.

• The template can create a maximum of 10 anchors. Specifying more than 10 anchors will result in an error message.
• As with other templates which use positional parameters, putting each anchor name on separate lines, for example

{{vanchor

|humpty
|dumpty}}

will not work as expected.

• Anchor names should be unique on a page, and should not duplicate any heading titles. Duplicate anchors won't work as expected since the #links go to the first anchor with that name. Duplicate anchors also result in invalid HTML; you can check for duplicate anchors by running the page through the W3C Markup Validation Service.
• If the template is added to a section title then the code will appear in the edit summary when that section is edited, as in "/* {{vanchor|Limitations|Issues}} */ New issue". This can be fixed by replacing the template code with its first parameter in the edit summary before the changes are saved: "/* Limitations */ New issue".

See also

• {{Anchor}}
• {{Anchored list}}
• {{Shortcut}}