Anchor links

[nigelbartlett]

Would be great to have an easy way to create anchor links in content in the CMS. (Eg: to the "Get in Touch" module, or from one section of content to another H2 or H3 heading somewhere else on the same page.)

[imperator99]

@nigelbartlett A module exists to do this: https://www.drupal.org/project/anchor_link.

Unfortunately, it suffers from some rather dramatic drawbacks notably https://www.drupal.org/project/anchor_link/issues/2888087 (tl;dr it conflicts with Drupal core).

Someone else is working on a similar project here but haven't spun it out as a separate module yet (issue for that here).

Until one of those modules becomes viable there's not a lot of options - I don't have the time at the moment to roll my own CKEditor plugin to add this. But I will keep this issue in the backlog so it doesn't go missing.

In the meantime, anchor links can be added via HTML:

1. Add the anchor: <a id="target-name"></a>
2. Link to the anchor using the existing tool and the URL: #target-name.

For example, to add an anchor to a heading:
<h2><a id="working-at-the-dta"></a>Working at the DTA</h2>

And then to link to it - this HTML will be generated by the linking tool:
<a href="#working-at-the-dta>Working at the DTA</a>

Or from another page - also cna be added with the linking tool:
<a href="https://url.of.another/page#working-at-the-dta">Working at the DTA</a>

This functionality was removed from core for reasons listed here.

[imperator99]

The other problem with this now is the module, while cleaned up, does not work with Linkit, which is a more valuable module at this point.