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Matt at 12:03, 14 April 2025

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	== Basic format<span class="anchor" id="Foo"></span><span class="anchor" id="In-Foo"></span><span class="anchor" id="Anchor name 1"></span><span class="anchor" id="Anchor name 2"></span> ==		== Basic format<span class="anchor" id="Foo"></span><span class="anchor" id="In-Foo"></span><span class="anchor" id="Anchor name 1"></span><span class="anchor" id="Anchor name 2"></span> ==
	~~{{shortcut\|WP:ANCHORFORMAT}}~~
	{{anchor\|Under-Foo}}		{{anchor\|Under-Foo}}
	{{notice\|Anchors should always be '''substituted within a section heading when the intended target is a section title''', otherwise it will cause technical issues.}}		{{notice\|Anchors should always be '''substituted within a section heading when the intended target is a section title''', otherwise it will cause technical issues.}}

Matt at 10:24, 14 April 2025

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	\| "		\| "
	\| <code>&quot;</code><br /><code>&#34;</code>		\| <code>&quot;</code><br /><code>&#34;</code>
	\| ~~{{N/a}}~~		\|
	\| ~~{{N/a}}~~		\|
	\| (double) quotation mark		\| (double) quotation mark
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	\| <code>&#35;</code><br /><code>&num;</code>		\| <code>&#35;</code><br /><code>&num;</code>
	\| {{tlx\|hash}}		\| {{tlx\|hash}}
	\| ~~{{N/a}}~~		\|
	\| hash		\| hash
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	\| <code>&#61;</code><br /><code>&equals;</code>		\| <code>&#61;</code><br /><code>&equals;</code>
	\| ~~{{N/a}}~~		\|
	\|		\|
	\| equals		\| equals

Matt at 22:10, 9 April 2025

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	{{wikipedia\|page name}}		{{wikipedia\|page name}}
	{{lua\|Module:Anchor}}		{{lua\|Module:Anchor}}
	~~{{used in system}}~~
	{{Documentation subpage}}		{{Documentation subpage}}
	<!-- PLEASE ADD CATEGORIES AT THE END OF THIS PAGE, ND INTERWIKIS LINKS TO WIKIDATA -->		<!-- PLEASE ADD CATEGORIES AT THE END OF THIS PAGE, ND INTERWIKIS LINKS TO WIKIDATA -->

Matt at 14:27, 9 April 2025

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	# <code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}\|Foo<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> <br /> could be linked to with <code><nowiki>[[#Foo\|...]]</nowiki></code> from ''within the same article'' (let's call this article "Qux"), <br /> or it could be linked to with {{nowrap\|<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>Qux#Foo<nowiki>\|...]]</nowiki></code>}} from ''other'' articles and from redirects (where the ellipsis after the word "Foo" here means the words chosen to represent that link in the Wikipedia article, which, of course, could be anything).		# <code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}\|Foo<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> <br /> could be linked to with <code><nowiki>[[#Foo\|...]]</nowiki></code> from ''within the same article'' (let's call this article "Qux"), <br /> or it could be linked to with {{nowrap\|<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>Qux#Foo<nowiki>\|...]]</nowiki></code>}} from ''other'' articles and from redirects (where the ellipsis after the word "Foo" here means the words chosen to represent that link in the Wikipedia article, which, of course, could be anything).
	# Anchors can be more suitable for inter-article linking than section titles are, because anchors are more stable. For example a section title {{nowrap\|1=<code>== Foo ==</code>}} within a Wikipedia article titled <code>Qux</code>: <br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:dimgray;"><nowiki>==</nowiki>~~{{sp}}~~<code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}<nowiki>\|Foo bar}}</nowiki></code>~~{{sp}}~~Foo <nowiki>==</nowiki></code>}} <br /> Here, links via {{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>Qux#Foo bar<nowiki>]]</nowiki></code>}} would remain valid even if the section were renamed {{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== {{anchor\|Foo bar}} On foo and its many friends ==</nowiki></code>}}<br /> A drawback of this approach (as detailed in § Limitations section) is that having a template in the section header causes problems with the edit summary window each time that a section edit is done for this section. The obvious solution is to place the anchor ''before'' the section. This also prevents browsers from hiding the section title from view when jumping to the target.<br /> {{anchor\|Example-note}}{{em\|Note:}} The anchor name (<code>Foo bar</code>) should be different than the section (<code>Foo</code>) to avoid invalid HTML.		# Anchors can be more suitable for inter-article linking than section titles are, because anchors are more stable. For example a section title {{nowrap\|1=<code>== Foo ==</code>}} within a Wikipedia article titled <code>Qux</code>: <br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:dimgray;"><nowiki>==</nowiki><code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}<nowiki>\|Foo bar}}</nowiki></code>Foo <nowiki>==</nowiki></code>}} <br /> Here, links via {{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>Qux#Foo bar<nowiki>]]</nowiki></code>}} would remain valid even if the section were renamed {{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== {{anchor\|Foo bar}} On foo and its many friends ==</nowiki></code>}}<br /> A drawback of this approach (as detailed in § Limitations section) is that having a template in the section header causes problems with the edit summary window each time that a section edit is done for this section. The obvious solution is to place the anchor ''before'' the section. This also prevents browsers from hiding the section title from view when jumping to the target.<br /> {{anchor\|Example-note}}{{em\|Note:}} The anchor name (<code>Foo bar</code>) should be different than the section (<code>Foo</code>) to avoid invalid HTML.
	# Within section titles, it may be preferable to simply use direct HTML, which may be achieved by substitution like this:<br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:dimgray;"><nowiki>==</nowiki>~~{{sp}}~~Foo<code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{subst:anchor\|Foo bar}}</nowiki></code>~~{{sp}}~~<nowiki>==</nowiki></code>}}<br />which is saved into the article as:<br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:dimgray;"><nowiki>==</nowiki>~~{{sp}}~~Foo<code style="color:darkgreen;">{{code\|1={{anchor\|Foo bar}}}}</code>~~{{sp}}~~<nowiki>==</nowiki></code>}}<br />This provides the stable, linkable anchor, but without the edit problem.<br /> The Note above still applies. See § Limitations for details.		# Within section titles, it may be preferable to simply use direct HTML, which may be achieved by substitution like this:<br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:dimgray;"><nowiki>==</nowiki>Foo<code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{subst:anchor\|Foo bar}}</nowiki></code><nowiki>==</nowiki></code>}}<br />which is saved into the article as:<br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:dimgray;"><nowiki>==</nowiki>Foo<code style="color:darkgreen;">{{code\|1={{anchor\|Foo bar}}}}</code><nowiki>==</nowiki></code>}}<br />This provides the stable, linkable anchor, but without the edit problem.<br /> The Note above still applies. See § Limitations for details.
	# The template can be used to create multiple anchors with a single call. For example, <br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}<nowiki>\|Foo\|Bar\|baz}}</nowiki></code>}} <br /> will create three anchors that can then be linked to with <code><nowiki>[[#Foo]]</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>[[#Bar]]</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>[[#baz]]</nowiki></code>.		# The template can be used to create multiple anchors with a single call. For example, <br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}<nowiki>\|Foo\|Bar\|baz}}</nowiki></code>}} <br /> will create three anchors that can then be linked to with <code><nowiki>[[#Foo]]</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>[[#Bar]]</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>[[#baz]]</nowiki></code>.
	# Here is a more literal example:<br /> Say you wrote an article about a recently discovered Indo-European language called "Yish Yash". The title of your article would probably be "Yish Yash language" (if there were already an article titled "Yish Yash" that covered the culture generally). Now let's say that within your article you wished to have a section titled "The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds". You would create a section heading that looked like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds == </nowiki></code>}}<br />Let's say that you then finished up writing and saved the new article. Now, say you came across another article on Wikipedia titled "Proto-Indo-European vowels" which happened to have a section on the unique tongue placement used in Yish Yash. You decided it might be useful here for readers to be able to quickly access the section of your article on Yish Yash tongue placement when forming vowels; however, you don't want to send them to the beginning of the whole article on the Yish Yash language (you wanted to target them more specifically). So you create a link in the Proto-Indo European vowel article to the ''section'' within ''your'' article on the placement of the tongue in Yish Yash: you might do so by editing the text of the Proto-Indo-European vowel article and adding something like this to a relevant place within it:<br /><code><nowiki>[[Yish Yash language#The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds\|Yish Yash tongue placement]] is particularly interesting.</nowiki></code><br />That is some ''really'' long code, but it would create a direct link to the relevant section of the new Yish Yash language article and would look like this in the article on Proto-Indo-European vowels:<br /> "...<span style="color:blue;">Yish Yash tongue placement</span> is particularly interesting..." <br /> Now let's say another editor came along and wished to change the heading of this section of your article for some legitimate reason—perhaps to "Yish Yash vowels and the tongue". They could do so by editing your article and making the section heading look like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== Yish Yash vowels and the tongue ==</nowiki></code>}}<br />Unbeknownst to that editor, this would mean the link in the article on Proto-Indo-European vowels that you created earlier would now go by default to the top of the Yish Yash article instead of your carefully-chosen subsection! However, if an ''anchor'' were placed within the section heading of the Yish Yash article either when you created it or when the other editor came along and changed it—perhaps something like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1= <code><nowiki>== The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds{{subst:anchor\|Tongue}} ==</nowiki></code>}}<br />or like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== Yish Yash vowel–tongue interaction{{subst:anchor\|Tongue}} ==</nowiki></code>}}<br />and the text of the article on Proto-Indo-European vowels had been changed by you to something like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>[[Yish Yash language#Tongue\|Yish Yash tongue placement]] is particularly interesting.</nowiki></code>}}<br />then the link from the Proto-Indo-European article would continue to point to the relevant ''section'' of the Yish Yash article, even if the wording of the section heading there had changed completely and without the reader having to sort it out for themselves. The use of anchors can make for a cleaner, more efficient Wikipedia reading experience where section headings are changed—which they not infrequently are.		# Here is a more literal example:<br /> Say you wrote an article about a recently discovered Indo-European language called "Yish Yash". The title of your article would probably be "Yish Yash language" (if there were already an article titled "Yish Yash" that covered the culture generally). Now let's say that within your article you wished to have a section titled "The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds". You would create a section heading that looked like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds == </nowiki></code>}}<br />Let's say that you then finished up writing and saved the new article. Now, say you came across another article on Wikipedia titled "Proto-Indo-European vowels" which happened to have a section on the unique tongue placement used in Yish Yash. You decided it might be useful here for readers to be able to quickly access the section of your article on Yish Yash tongue placement when forming vowels; however, you don't want to send them to the beginning of the whole article on the Yish Yash language (you wanted to target them more specifically). So you create a link in the Proto-Indo European vowel article to the ''section'' within ''your'' article on the placement of the tongue in Yish Yash: you might do so by editing the text of the Proto-Indo-European vowel article and adding something like this to a relevant place within it:<br /><code><nowiki>[[Yish Yash language#The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds\|Yish Yash tongue placement]] is particularly interesting.</nowiki></code><br />That is some ''really'' long code, but it would create a direct link to the relevant section of the new Yish Yash language article and would look like this in the article on Proto-Indo-European vowels:<br /> "...<span style="color:blue;">Yish Yash tongue placement</span> is particularly interesting..." <br /> Now let's say another editor came along and wished to change the heading of this section of your article for some legitimate reason—perhaps to "Yish Yash vowels and the tongue". They could do so by editing your article and making the section heading look like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== Yish Yash vowels and the tongue ==</nowiki></code>}}<br />Unbeknownst to that editor, this would mean the link in the article on Proto-Indo-European vowels that you created earlier would now go by default to the top of the Yish Yash article instead of your carefully-chosen subsection! However, if an ''anchor'' were placed within the section heading of the Yish Yash article either when you created it or when the other editor came along and changed it—perhaps something like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1= <code><nowiki>== The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds{{subst:anchor\|Tongue}} ==</nowiki></code>}}<br />or like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== Yish Yash vowel–tongue interaction{{subst:anchor\|Tongue}} ==</nowiki></code>}}<br />and the text of the article on Proto-Indo-European vowels had been changed by you to something like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>[[Yish Yash language#Tongue\|Yish Yash tongue placement]] is particularly interesting.</nowiki></code>}}<br />then the link from the Proto-Indo-European article would continue to point to the relevant ''section'' of the Yish Yash article, even if the wording of the section heading there had changed completely and without the reader having to sort it out for themselves. The use of anchors can make for a cleaner, more efficient Wikipedia reading experience where section headings are changed—which they not infrequently are.

Matt at 13:28, 9 April 2025

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	\| <code>&#124;</code><br /><code>&vertbar;</code>		\| <code>&#124;</code><br /><code>&vertbar;</code>
	\| ~~{{tlx\|pipe}}~~		\|
	\|		\|
	\| pipe		\| pipe

Matt at 12:33, 9 April 2025

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	\| <code>&#61;</code><br /><code>&equals;</code>		\| <code>&#61;</code><br /><code>&equals;</code>
	\| {{N/a}}		\| {{N/a}}
	\| ~~{{tlx\|{{=}}}}~~		\|
	\| equals		\| equals
	\|}		\|}

Matt at 12:30, 9 April 2025

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	* Anchor names that contain any character shown in the table on the right 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 and ~~{{tlx\|{{=}}}}~~, respectively. Markup code such as {{tag\|sup\|o}} and {{tag\|sub\|o}} (superscript and subscript) cannot be used. Most other characters, including white space and punctuation, are not a problem.		* Anchor names that contain any character shown in the table on the right 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 and , respectively. Markup code such as {{tag\|sup\|o}} and {{tag\|sub\|o}} (superscript and subscript) cannot be used. Most other characters, including white space and punctuation, are not a problem.
	* Anchor names must be unique on a page, and must not duplicate any heading titles. Duplicate anchors will not work as expected since the <code><nowiki>#location</nowiki></code> links go to the first anchor with that name. Duplicate anchors result in invalid HTML; you can check for duplicate anchors by running the page through the W3C Markup Validation Service.		* Anchor names must be unique on a page, and must not duplicate any heading titles. Duplicate anchors will not work as expected since the <code><nowiki>#location</nowiki></code> links go to the first anchor with that name. Duplicate anchors result in invalid HTML; you can check for duplicate anchors by running the page through the W3C Markup Validation Service.
	* Anchor links are case-sensitive in '''some''' browsers, so treat all anchor links as case-sensitive when creating links to them. For example, if you create the anchor with <code><nowiki>=== Baz{{subst:anchor\|Bar}} ===</nowiki></code>, link to it with <code><nowiki>[[pagename#Bar]]</nowiki></code>, not <code><nowiki>[[pagename#bAR]]</nowiki></code>. However, because some browsers are '''not''' case-sensitive, do not create section titles or anchors that differ only in case from others on the page. That is, do not create both <code><nowiki>=== Abcd{{subst:anchor\|Baz}} ===</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>=== Efgh{{subst:anchor\|bAZ}} ===</nowiki></code>.		* Anchor links are case-sensitive in '''some''' browsers, so treat all anchor links as case-sensitive when creating links to them. For example, if you create the anchor with <code><nowiki>=== Baz{{subst:anchor\|Bar}} ===</nowiki></code>, link to it with <code><nowiki>[[pagename#Bar]]</nowiki></code>, not <code><nowiki>[[pagename#bAR]]</nowiki></code>. However, because some browsers are '''not''' case-sensitive, do not create section titles or anchors that differ only in case from others on the page. That is, do not create both <code><nowiki>=== Abcd{{subst:anchor\|Baz}} ===</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>=== Efgh{{subst:anchor\|bAZ}} ===</nowiki></code>.

Matt at 11:55, 9 April 2025

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	{{lua\|Module:Anchor}}		{{lua\|Module:Anchor}}
	{{used in system}}		{{used in system}}
	~~{{Bot use warning\|bots=User:Cewbot (BRFA)}}~~
	{{Documentation subpage}}		{{Documentation subpage}}
	<!-- PLEASE ADD CATEGORIES AT THE END OF THIS PAGE, ND INTERWIKIS LINKS TO WIKIDATA -->		<!-- PLEASE ADD CATEGORIES AT THE END OF THIS PAGE, ND INTERWIKIS LINKS TO WIKIDATA -->
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	~~== See also ==~~
	* {{#ifeq:{{BASEPAGENAME}}\|Visible anchor\|{{tl\|Anchor}}\|{{tl\|Visible anchor}}}}
	* {{tl\|Anchored list}}
	* {{tl\|Anchor comment}}
	* {{tl\|Shortcut}}
	* WP:ANCHOR
	* WP:TARGET
	* {{tl\|Section link}}
	<includeonly>{{Sandbox other\|\|		<includeonly>{{Sandbox other\|\|
	<!-- CATEGORIES HERE, AND INTERWIKIS TO WIKIDATA, THANKS -->		<!-- CATEGORIES HERE, AND INTERWIKIS TO WIKIDATA, THANKS -->

Matt at 08:41, 9 April 2025

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	\| <code>&#124;</code><br /><code>&vertbar;</code>		\| <code>&#124;</code><br /><code>&vertbar;</code>
	\| {{tlx\|pipe}}		\| {{tlx\|pipe}}
	\| ~~{{tlx\|!}}~~		\|
	\| pipe		\| pipe
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	* Anchor names that contain any character shown in the table on the right 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 ~~{{tlx\|!}}~~ and {{tlx\|{{=}}}}, respectively. Markup code such as {{tag\|sup\|o}} and {{tag\|sub\|o}} (superscript and subscript) cannot be used. Most other characters, including white space and punctuation, are not a problem.		* Anchor names that contain any character shown in the table on the right 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 and {{tlx\|{{=}}}}, respectively. Markup code such as {{tag\|sup\|o}} and {{tag\|sub\|o}} (superscript and subscript) cannot be used. Most other characters, including white space and punctuation, are not a problem.
	* Anchor names must be unique on a page, and must not duplicate any heading titles. Duplicate anchors will not work as expected since the <code><nowiki>#location</nowiki></code> links go to the first anchor with that name. Duplicate anchors result in invalid HTML; you can check for duplicate anchors by running the page through the W3C Markup Validation Service.		* Anchor names must be unique on a page, and must not duplicate any heading titles. Duplicate anchors will not work as expected since the <code><nowiki>#location</nowiki></code> links go to the first anchor with that name. Duplicate anchors result in invalid HTML; you can check for duplicate anchors by running the page through the W3C Markup Validation Service.
	* Anchor links are case-sensitive in '''some''' browsers, so treat all anchor links as case-sensitive when creating links to them. For example, if you create the anchor with <code><nowiki>=== Baz{{subst:anchor\|Bar}} ===</nowiki></code>, link to it with <code><nowiki>[[pagename#Bar]]</nowiki></code>, not <code><nowiki>[[pagename#bAR]]</nowiki></code>. However, because some browsers are '''not''' case-sensitive, do not create section titles or anchors that differ only in case from others on the page. That is, do not create both <code><nowiki>=== Abcd{{subst:anchor\|Baz}} ===</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>=== Efgh{{subst:anchor\|bAZ}} ===</nowiki></code>.		* Anchor links are case-sensitive in '''some''' browsers, so treat all anchor links as case-sensitive when creating links to them. For example, if you create the anchor with <code><nowiki>=== Baz{{subst:anchor\|Bar}} ===</nowiki></code>, link to it with <code><nowiki>[[pagename#Bar]]</nowiki></code>, not <code><nowiki>[[pagename#bAR]]</nowiki></code>. However, because some browsers are '''not''' case-sensitive, do not create section titles or anchors that differ only in case from others on the page. That is, do not create both <code><nowiki>=== Abcd{{subst:anchor\|Baz}} ===</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>=== Efgh{{subst:anchor\|bAZ}} ===</nowiki></code>.

Matt at 08:29, 9 April 2025

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	The template {{tl\|{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}}} inserts one or more invisible anchor names (HTML fragment identifiers) in a page.		The template {{tl\|{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}}} inserts one or more invisible anchor names (HTML fragment identifiers) in a page.

	The basic format is {{tlc\|anchor\|Anchor name}} for parts on a page, and ~~{{tlxs\|anchor\|Anchor name\|nolink=y}}~~ for use in headings. To link to an anchor from within the same page, use <code><nowiki>[[#Anchor name\|display text]]</nowiki></code>. {{#ifeq:{{BASEPAGENAME}}\|Visible anchor\| Unlike {{tl\|Anchor}}, the first parameter will be visible text on the page.\|}} To link to an anchor from another page, use <code><nowiki>[[Article name#Anchor name\|display text]]</nowiki></code>. See Help:Link § Section linking (anchors) for more details.		The basic format is {{tlc\|anchor\|Anchor name}} for parts on a page, and for use in headings. To link to an anchor from within the same page, use <code><nowiki>[[#Anchor name\|display text]]</nowiki></code>. {{#ifeq:{{BASEPAGENAME}}\|Visible anchor\| Unlike {{tl\|Anchor}}, the first parameter will be visible text on the page.\|}} To link to an anchor from another page, use <code><nowiki>[[Article name#Anchor name\|display text]]</nowiki></code>. See Help:Link § Section linking (anchors) for more details.

	Note that <code><nowiki>#</nowiki>{{var\|Anchor name}}</code>, used by the MediaWiki software to (usually) direct users to sections within a page, is not a wikitext directive like <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>#REDIRECT</syntaxhighlight>.		Note that <code><nowiki>#</nowiki>{{var\|Anchor name}}</code>, used by the MediaWiki software to (usually) direct users to sections within a page, is not a wikitext directive like <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>#REDIRECT</syntaxhighlight>.

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	# <code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}\|Foo<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> <br /> could be linked to with <code><nowiki>[[#Foo\|...]]</nowiki></code> from ''within the same article'' (let's call this article "Qux"), <br /> or it could be linked to with {{nowrap\|<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>Qux#Foo<nowiki>\|...]]</nowiki></code>}} from ''other'' articles and from redirects (where the ellipsis after the word "Foo" here means the words chosen to represent that link in the Wikipedia article, which, of course, could be anything).		# <code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}\|Foo<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> <br /> could be linked to with <code><nowiki>[[#Foo\|...]]</nowiki></code> from ''within the same article'' (let's call this article "Qux"), <br /> or it could be linked to with {{nowrap\|<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>Qux#Foo<nowiki>\|...]]</nowiki></code>}} from ''other'' articles and from redirects (where the ellipsis after the word "Foo" here means the words chosen to represent that link in the Wikipedia article, which, of course, could be anything).
	# Anchors can be more suitable for inter-article linking than section titles are, because anchors are more stable. For example a section title {{nowrap\|1=<code>== Foo ==</code>}} within a Wikipedia article titled <code>Qux</code>: <br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:dimgray;"><nowiki>==</nowiki>~~{{sp}}~~<code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}<nowiki>\|Foo bar}}</nowiki></code>~~{{sp}}~~Foo <nowiki>==</nowiki></code>}} <br /> Here, links via {{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>Qux#Foo bar<nowiki>]]</nowiki></code>}} would remain valid even if the section were renamed {{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== {{anchor\|Foo bar}} On foo and its many friends ==</nowiki></code>}}<br /> A drawback of this approach (as detailed in § Limitations section) is that having a template in the section header causes problems with the edit summary window each time that a section edit is done for this section. The obvious solution is to place the anchor ''before'' the section. This also prevents browsers from hiding the section title from view when jumping to the target.<br /> {{anchor\|Example-note}}{{em\|Note:}} The anchor name (<code>Foo bar</code>) should be different than the section (<code>Foo</code>) to avoid invalid HTML.		# Anchors can be more suitable for inter-article linking than section titles are, because anchors are more stable. For example a section title {{nowrap\|1=<code>== Foo ==</code>}} within a Wikipedia article titled <code>Qux</code>: <br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:dimgray;"><nowiki>==</nowiki><code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}<nowiki>\|Foo bar}}</nowiki></code>Foo <nowiki>==</nowiki></code>}} <br /> Here, links via {{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>Qux#Foo bar<nowiki>]]</nowiki></code>}} would remain valid even if the section were renamed {{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== {{anchor\|Foo bar}} On foo and its many friends ==</nowiki></code>}}<br /> A drawback of this approach (as detailed in § Limitations section) is that having a template in the section header causes problems with the edit summary window each time that a section edit is done for this section. The obvious solution is to place the anchor ''before'' the section. This also prevents browsers from hiding the section title from view when jumping to the target.<br /> {{anchor\|Example-note}}{{em\|Note:}} The anchor name (<code>Foo bar</code>) should be different than the section (<code>Foo</code>) to avoid invalid HTML.
	# Within section titles, it may be preferable to simply use direct HTML, which may be achieved by substitution like this:<br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:dimgray;"><nowiki>==</nowiki>~~{{sp}}~~Foo<code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{subst:anchor\|Foo bar}}</nowiki></code>~~{{sp}}~~<nowiki>==</nowiki></code>}}<br />which is saved into the article as:<br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:dimgray;"><nowiki>==</nowiki>~~{{sp}}~~Foo<code style="color:darkgreen;">{{code\|1={{anchor\|Foo bar}}}}</code>~~{{sp}}~~<nowiki>==</nowiki></code>}}<br />This provides the stable, linkable anchor, but without the edit problem.<br /> The Note above still applies. See § Limitations for details.		# Within section titles, it may be preferable to simply use direct HTML, which may be achieved by substitution like this:<br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:dimgray;"><nowiki>==</nowiki>Foo<code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{subst:anchor\|Foo bar}}</nowiki></code><nowiki>==</nowiki></code>}}<br />which is saved into the article as:<br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:dimgray;"><nowiki>==</nowiki>Foo<code style="color:darkgreen;">{{code\|1={{anchor\|Foo bar}}}}</code><nowiki>==</nowiki></code>}}<br />This provides the stable, linkable anchor, but without the edit problem.<br /> The Note above still applies. See § Limitations for details.
	# The template can be used to create multiple anchors with a single call. For example, <br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}<nowiki>\|Foo\|Bar\|baz}}</nowiki></code>}} <br /> will create three anchors that can then be linked to with <code><nowiki>[[#Foo]]</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>[[#Bar]]</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>[[#baz]]</nowiki></code>.		# The template can be used to create multiple anchors with a single call. For example, <br /> {{nowrap\|1=<code style="color:darkgreen;"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}<nowiki>\|Foo\|Bar\|baz}}</nowiki></code>}} <br /> will create three anchors that can then be linked to with <code><nowiki>[[#Foo]]</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>[[#Bar]]</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>[[#baz]]</nowiki></code>.
	# Here is a more literal example:<br /> Say you wrote an article about a recently discovered Indo-European language called "Yish Yash". The title of your article would probably be "Yish Yash language" (if there were already an article titled "Yish Yash" that covered the culture generally). Now let's say that within your article you wished to have a section titled "The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds". You would create a section heading that looked like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds == </nowiki></code>}}<br />Let's say that you then finished up writing and saved the new article. Now, say you came across another article on Wikipedia titled "Proto-Indo-European vowels" which happened to have a section on the unique tongue placement used in Yish Yash. You decided it might be useful here for readers to be able to quickly access the section of your article on Yish Yash tongue placement when forming vowels; however, you don't want to send them to the beginning of the whole article on the Yish Yash language (you wanted to target them more specifically). So you create a link in the Proto-Indo European vowel article to the ''section'' within ''your'' article on the placement of the tongue in Yish Yash: you might do so by editing the text of the Proto-Indo-European vowel article and adding something like this to a relevant place within it:<br /><code><nowiki>[[Yish Yash language#The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds\|Yish Yash tongue placement]] is particularly interesting.</nowiki></code><br />That is some ''really'' long code, but it would create a direct link to the relevant section of the new Yish Yash language article and would look like this in the article on Proto-Indo-European vowels:<br /> "...<span style="color:blue;">Yish Yash tongue placement</span> is particularly interesting..." <br /> Now let's say another editor came along and wished to change the heading of this section of your article for some legitimate reason—perhaps to "Yish Yash vowels and the tongue". They could do so by editing your article and making the section heading look like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== Yish Yash vowels and the tongue ==</nowiki></code>}}<br />Unbeknownst to that editor, this would mean the link in the article on Proto-Indo-European vowels that you created earlier would now go by default to the top of the Yish Yash article instead of your carefully-chosen subsection! However, if an ''anchor'' were placed within the section heading of the Yish Yash article either when you created it or when the other editor came along and changed it—perhaps something like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1= <code><nowiki>== The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds{{subst:anchor\|Tongue}} ==</nowiki></code>}}<br />or like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== Yish Yash vowel–tongue interaction{{subst:anchor\|Tongue}} ==</nowiki></code>}}<br />and the text of the article on Proto-Indo-European vowels had been changed by you to something like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>[[Yish Yash language#Tongue\|Yish Yash tongue placement]] is particularly interesting.</nowiki></code>}}<br />then the link from the Proto-Indo-European article would continue to point to the relevant ''section'' of the Yish Yash article, even if the wording of the section heading there had changed completely and without the reader having to sort it out for themselves. The use of anchors can make for a cleaner, more efficient Wikipedia reading experience where section headings are changed—which they not infrequently are.		# Here is a more literal example:<br /> Say you wrote an article about a recently discovered Indo-European language called "Yish Yash". The title of your article would probably be "Yish Yash language" (if there were already an article titled "Yish Yash" that covered the culture generally). Now let's say that within your article you wished to have a section titled "The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds". You would create a section heading that looked like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds == </nowiki></code>}}<br />Let's say that you then finished up writing and saved the new article. Now, say you came across another article on Wikipedia titled "Proto-Indo-European vowels" which happened to have a section on the unique tongue placement used in Yish Yash. You decided it might be useful here for readers to be able to quickly access the section of your article on Yish Yash tongue placement when forming vowels; however, you don't want to send them to the beginning of the whole article on the Yish Yash language (you wanted to target them more specifically). So you create a link in the Proto-Indo European vowel article to the ''section'' within ''your'' article on the placement of the tongue in Yish Yash: you might do so by editing the text of the Proto-Indo-European vowel article and adding something like this to a relevant place within it:<br /><code><nowiki>[[Yish Yash language#The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds\|Yish Yash tongue placement]] is particularly interesting.</nowiki></code><br />That is some ''really'' long code, but it would create a direct link to the relevant section of the new Yish Yash language article and would look like this in the article on Proto-Indo-European vowels:<br /> "...<span style="color:blue;">Yish Yash tongue placement</span> is particularly interesting..." <br /> Now let's say another editor came along and wished to change the heading of this section of your article for some legitimate reason—perhaps to "Yish Yash vowels and the tongue". They could do so by editing your article and making the section heading look like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== Yish Yash vowels and the tongue ==</nowiki></code>}}<br />Unbeknownst to that editor, this would mean the link in the article on Proto-Indo-European vowels that you created earlier would now go by default to the top of the Yish Yash article instead of your carefully-chosen subsection! However, if an ''anchor'' were placed within the section heading of the Yish Yash article either when you created it or when the other editor came along and changed it—perhaps something like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1= <code><nowiki>== The placement of the tongue when producing Yish Yash vowel sounds{{subst:anchor\|Tongue}} ==</nowiki></code>}}<br />or like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>== Yish Yash vowel–tongue interaction{{subst:anchor\|Tongue}} ==</nowiki></code>}}<br />and the text of the article on Proto-Indo-European vowels had been changed by you to something like this:<br />{{nowrap\|1=<code><nowiki>[[Yish Yash language#Tongue\|Yish Yash tongue placement]] is particularly interesting.</nowiki></code>}}<br />then the link from the Proto-Indo-European article would continue to point to the relevant ''section'' of the Yish Yash article, even if the wording of the section heading there had changed completely and without the reader having to sort it out for themselves. The use of anchors can make for a cleaner, more efficient Wikipedia reading experience where section headings are changed—which they not infrequently are.

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	The template {{tl\|{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}}} inserts one or more invisible anchor names (HTML fragment identifiers) in a page.		The template {{tl\|{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}}} inserts one or more invisible anchor names (HTML fragment identifiers) in a page.

	The basic format is {{tlc\|anchor\|Anchor name}} for parts on a page, and ~~{{tlxs\|anchor\|Anchor name\|nolink=y}}~~ for use in headings. To link to an anchor from within the same page, use <code><nowiki>[[#Anchor name\|display text]]</nowiki></code>. {{#ifeq:{{BASEPAGENAME}}\|Visible anchor\| Unlike {{tl\|Anchor}}, the first parameter will be visible text on the page.\|}} To link to an anchor from another page, use <code><nowiki>[[Article name#Anchor name\|display text]]</nowiki></code>. See Help:Link § Section linking (anchors) for more details.		The basic format is {{tlc\|anchor\|Anchor name}} for parts on a page, and for use in headings. To link to an anchor from within the same page, use <code><nowiki>[[#Anchor name\|display text]]</nowiki></code>. {{#ifeq:{{BASEPAGENAME}}\|Visible anchor\| Unlike {{tl\|Anchor}}, the first parameter will be visible text on the page.\|}} To link to an anchor from another page, use <code><nowiki>[[Article name#Anchor name\|display text]]</nowiki></code>. See Help:Link § Section linking (anchors) for more details.

	Note that <code><nowiki>#</nowiki>{{var\|Anchor name}}</code>, used by the MediaWiki software to (usually) direct users to sections within a page, is not a wikitext directive like <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>#REDIRECT</syntaxhighlight>.		Note that <code><nowiki>#</nowiki>{{var\|Anchor name}}</code>, used by the MediaWiki software to (usually) direct users to sections within a page, is not a wikitext directive like <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>#REDIRECT</syntaxhighlight>.