View source for Help:Anchors: creating and referencing

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Anchors allow you to link to a specific portion of a page.

==Setting anchors==
===Automatic anchors===
Section headings automatically act as anchors, with the heading text as the "anchor_name".  In the case of multiple sections with identical headings, the anchor name of each has "_2", "_3", etc. appended, starting from the second occurrence.

===Using the <nowiki>{{anchor}}</nowiki> template===
#set your anchor anywhere in the page by using
<pre>{{anchor|your_anchorname}}</pre>

===Manual anchors===
Manually-set anchors are useful for linking to "unlinkable" things like a table (title or cell), a section of plain text, etc.  
There are a number of ways to set an anchor at an arbitrary position:

* Generic anchor: <code><nowiki><span id="anchor_name">some text</span></nowiki></code>.  For a hidden anchor, omit the text.

* The reserved name <code><nowiki>[[#top]]</nowiki></code> always links to the [[#top|top of a page]].

* On some wikis, a [[Templates - Mediawiki|template]] called "anchor" exists, providing a simple, standardized method for that wiki. The Self Study wiki does use [[Template:Anchor]].

==Referencing anchors==
Inside a regular wiki link <nowiki>[[page#anchor_name|shows_as]]</nowiki>, include the hash sign (#) and the header name or the id tag name as you have written it.

Links of the form <code><nowiki>[[#anchor_name]]</nowiki></code> will link to the first anchor on the page matching that "anchor_name", usually the first identical section heading.

;See also
*http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link#Anchors