Support for Linking to Headings in Markdown

[d42ohpaz]

Requirements

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Describe the feature you'd like

I could not find any documentation on this feature, nor was I able to find any existing issues (current or past) describing this feature.

It would be helpful for longer posts to be able to link to headings (h1...h6) from anywhere in the document. This could be done by normalizing the heading into a slug (e.g., Foo Bar => #foo-bar or Hello, World => #hello-world) and using that as the HTML id attribute. Once the id attribute exists, simply creating a link (e.g., (Foo Bar)[#foo-bar]) should allow the browser to do the Right Thing(TM).

Thank you,

- @dohpaz42@lemmy.world

[dessalines]

You'd need to do a PR to add this, because markdown-it doesn't do it by default.

I found these two plugins that might work:

• https://github.com/Flet/markdown-it-github-headings
• https://github.com/rstacruz/markdown-it-named-headings