How add anchors on pages across your site

Linking to an anchor takes a user directly to a specific place on a page. 

You must create the anchor (using the Confluence Anchor Macro), before you can link to it.

Adding an Anchor

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

Creating a Link to the Anchor

Link to an anchor on same Confluence site:

A. Same Page

  • Go to "Insert Link"
  • Choose "Advanced"
  • User "#" before the anchor name

B. Different Page

  • Go to "Insert Link"
  • Choose "Advanced" and enter the anchor name in the "Link" field
  • Enter or modify the Link Text
  • Save

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

  • Go to "Insert Link"
  • Choose Web Link and add a full URL 





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. 

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:

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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