Creating an [[anchor]] in Markdown
Is it a native Markdown "tag" for creating an [[anchor]]? Unfortunately,
I haven't any information about it at
Markdown syntax page.
Of course, I know that I can use HTML tag to do it,
for example <a name="foo" />, but I don't want to mix Markdown
and HTML code if it's not necessary.
BTW, ikiwiki doesn't displays the #foo anchor in the example
("To link to an anchor inside a page...") at [[WikiLink]] page...
--[[Paweł|ptecza]]
No such syntax exists in markdown. ikiwiki could certainly have a
[[preprocessor_directive|directive]] for it, though.
--[[JoshTriplett]]
[[!tag wishlist]]
I'd like to implement such a thing. Joey, what is this supposed to look like?
\[[anchor WHATEVER]]? --[[tschwinge]]
Why would you want to use a preprocessor directive for something that can
be more shortly and clearly done with plain HTML? Markdown is designed
to be intermixed with HTML. --[[Joey]]
I tend to disagree.
It just doesn't feel right for me to put HTML code straight into Markdown files.
Quoting http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/:
The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.
Also, in theorie at least, Markdown might also support other output formats than HTML.
Those wouldn't know about how to deal with the intermingled HTML code.
--[[tschwinge]]
Not sure [[anchor WHATEVER]] looks any better than <a name="WHATEVER">...? --[[sabr]]
The lack of the #foo anchor in the anchor example on [[wikilink]]
definitely looks like a bug. --[[JoshTriplett]]
Fixed that --[[Joey]]
The 'name' attribute of the 'a' element is a depracated way to create a named anchor. The right way to do that is using the 'id' attribute of any element. This is because an anchor may refer to a complete element rather than some point in the page.
Standard purity aside, if you define an anchor (using either 'a name' or 'id') to a single point in the document but refer to a complete section, the browser may just show that specific point at the bottom of the page rather than trying to show all the section.
--[[tzafrir]]
Considering a hierarchy like foo/bar/bar, I had the need to link from the
foo/bar/bar page to the foo/bar one. It would have been convenient to
simply write [[wikilink]]s like \[[../bar]] (or even just \[[..]]?), but
this doesn't work, so I had to resort to using \[[foo/bar]] instead.
--[[tschwinge]]
I believe, that doesn't entirely solve the problem. Just assume, your hierarchy is /foo/bar/foo/bar.
How do you access from the page /foo/bar/foo/bar the /foo/bar and not /foo/bar/foo/bar?
Do we have a way to implement \[[../..]] or \[[/foo/bar]]?
Even worse, trying to link from /foo/bar to /foo/bar/foo/bar ... this will probably need \[[./foo/bar]] --[[Jan|jwalzer]]
There is no ".." syntax in wikilinks, but if the link begins with "/" it
is rooted at the top of the wiki, as documented in
[[subpage/linkingrules]]. Therefore, every example page name you listed
above will work unchanged as a wikilink to that page! --[[Joey]]
How do I make images clickable? The obvious guess, [[foo.png|/index]], doesn't work. --[[sabr]]
You can do it using the img plugin. The syntax you suggested would be ambiguous,
as there's no way to tell if the text is meant to be an image or displayed as-is.
--[[Joey]]
Is it possible to refer to a page, say [[foobar]], such that the link text is taken from foobar's title [[directive/meta]] tag? --Peter
Not yet. :-) Any suggestion for a syntax for it? Maybe something like [[|foobar]] ? --[[Joey]]
I like your suggestion because it's short and conscise. However, it would be nice to be able to refer to more or less arbitrary meta tags in links, not just "title". To do that, the link needs two parameters: the page name and the tag name, i.e. [[pagename!metatag]]. Any sufficiently weird separater can be used instead of '!', of course. I like [[pagename->metatag]], too, because it reminds me of accessing a data member of a structure (which is what referencing a meta tag is, really). --Peter
