Header Anchor Links

[trans]

Header's that are links that only provide "hash tags" for their URL, should also add an id to the rendering of the tag.

# [Something](#something)

becomes

<h1><a id="something" href="#something">Something</a></h1>

This allows document anchors to work properly.

[fletcher]

I'm not sure I follow what you're suggesting here. What's wrong with the current approach, and how is it fundamentally different than what you're suggesting?

[trans]

Currently it renders to just:

<h1><a href="#something">Something</a></h1>

Which is rather useless because without the id attribute entering the url http://foo.com#something will not take us to the anchor.

Note, I've read examples where name is used instead of id, but the a tag (nor the h* tags) appear to support the name attribute any more. So I think id is the best choice even though browsers seem to support both.

Also, id could be put on the h1 instead:

<h1 id="something"><a href="#something">Something</a></h1>

It should work just as well either way. But I suspect it is easier to add it to the a tag in implementation.

[fletcher]

Not sure what you're doing, but it renders this:

<h1 id="something"><a href="#something">Something</a></h1>

[trans]

Oh nice! Sorry, I was running it through the wrong parser (github's) and thought it would be the same --MultiMarkdown is first parser I have seen that does this right! :+1:

Another issue bits the dust!

[fletcher]

GitHub doesn't use MultiMarkdown.