Linking to an Anchor

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How add anchors on pages across your siteAdding links to specific page areas.

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Linking to Adding an anchor takes a user directly to a specific place on a page. You must create the anchor (using the is a two-step process: creating the anchor with the Confluence Anchor Macro), before you can link to it, and linking to it, from the same or a different page.

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Insert the Anchor Macro at a chosen link destination.

Enter a name for the anchor. (e.g. step-two)

Create

Adding an Anchor

Go to "Insert Macro"
Select "Anchor Macro"
Enter anchor name (For example, 'bottom' or 'important information')

Creating

a Link to the Anchor.

Insert a link
Click Advanced in the Insert Link window
Add # followed by the anchor name from Step 1 into the link field

Depending on whether you are linking to an

anchor

anchor on

the same Confluence site:

Select some text or position your cursor where you want to insert the link

Choose Link in the toolbar or press Ctrl+K

: the same page; a different page in the same space; or a page in a different space, you'll want to choose the related syntax:

Choose Advanced and enter the anchor name in the Link field, following the format below.

Anchor location	Link syntax for anchor	Examples
Same page	#anchor name

#bottom

#top

#important information

`#specific section`
Page in same space	page name#anchor name	`My`

page#bottom

page#top

My

page#important information

`page#specific section`
Page in a different space	spacekey:page name#anchor name	`DOC:My`

page#bottom

page#top

DOC:My

page#important information

page#specific section

Enter or modify the the Link Text (this is the text that will appear on the page. If this field is left blank, the page name or URL will be used as the link text)
Choose Save

Anchor names are case sensitive
Enter page and anchor names with spaces when you link to them in the same Confluence site
If you're linking to an anchor on a different page that has special characters in its name, where the URL displays a page ID rather than a name, you should still enter the page name when linking to it

Screenshot: The 'Advanced' option in the link dialog

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Link to an anchor from another web page or another Confluence site:

Use a full URL in the following format:

- This setting allows you to insert link text that differs from the linked page title
Select Insert

Notes about the full URL:

The page name is repeated in the URL, after the # sign. The second occurrence of the page name is concatenated into a single word, with all spaces removed.
There is a single dash (hyphen) between the concatenated page name and the anchor name.
The anchor name in the full URL is concatenated into a single word, with all spaces removed.
The anchor name is case sensitive.
If the page name contains special characters, where the URL displays a page ID rather than a name, the link to an anchor will look more like this http://myconfluence.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=54689987#Test-page1!-anchor
In this example the page title is Test - Page 1! and the anchor name is anchor.

Notes

Table of contents on a page: Consider using the Table of Contents Macro to generate a list of links pointing to the headings on the page. The list of links will appear on the page, and will be automatically updated each time someone changes the wording of a heading.
Linking to headings: You can link directly to the headings of a page. See Links. However, if someone changes the wording of a heading, those direct links will be broken. Use the Anchor macro to ensure a lasting link within the body of a page.
Site welcome message: If you are adding an anchor to a page that you are using in the site welcome message, you can only link to that anchor from another page. Internal links within that page will not work.
Templates: When you are previewing a template, a link to an anchor is displayed as a 'broken' link. However, when you create a page using the template the resulting page will have the correct link.

Internal Links

Link to an anchor on a page

On the same page

To link to an anchor on the same page, open the link option in the editor and choose the "Advanced" option. Use "#" before the anchor name (case sensitive) to create the link to the an on-page anchor.

This link is an example of linking to an anchor on the same page. It will take you to the "Next Step" section at the bottom of the page, where an anchor named "Next" is located.

On a different page

To link to an anchor on another page, you will need a specific syntax.

This link is an example of the following syntax for linking to an anchor on another page:

The page name is repeated in the URL after the "#" (without any spaces or punctuation), and then followed by a dash and then the name of the anchor.

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Note

Anchor names:

are case sensitive
must match the link you use when creating the Anchor macro

Link syntax

Examples

http://myconfluence.com/display/spacekey/pagename#pagename-anchorname

http://myconfluence.com/display/DOCS/My+page#Mypage-bottom

http://myconfluence.com/display/DOCS/My+page#Mypage-importantinformation

http://www-test.brikit.com/display/documentation/Link+Examples#LinkExamples-Ferrets

Special Characters

If the name of the page you are linking to contains special characters, where the URL displays a page ID rather than a name, the link to an anchor will be a combination of the page ID and the page name, as follows:

For the page "Test - page 1!" containing a tab named "anchor" the URL will look like this:

http://myconfluence.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=54689987#Test-page1!-anchor

UTF-16 Characters

If the page name contains UTF-16 characters (eg. Simplified Mandarin, Katakana) then it is necessary to add "id-" into the URL before the second instance of the page name, as follows:

For the page "ページ" containing a tab named "High Level Comparison", the URL will look like this:

http://myconfluence.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7700510#id-ページ-HighLevelComparison

Note: You can retrieve the page ID from the address bar when the characters are not ASCII.

External Links

Link to an anchor

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