[ACCEPTED] Anchors on forum posts

[Brennus]

Hello,

I'd like to suggest the implementation of BBCode "anchors".
It would be very helpful when creating guides or any kind of long posts that could benefit from a table of contents.



What the hell are you talking about? What is this "Anchor" thing?
Anchor are "links" that take you to another section of the same page.
For instance, in HTML, it is implemented with this as the Link to the anchor

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<a href="#example">Link</a>

and this as the Anchor itself (the target of the link created before)

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<a name="example">Target</a>

some people use this as Anchor instead (this one is just an example, I don't know if this is compatible with all browsers)

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<span id="example">Target</span>

A good example are the links in Wikipedia pages that are inside the "Contents" box.

Screenshot taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar




Speaking is easy, but implementing is hard!!!
Not at all. If the staff accepts this suggestion, it should be implemented like the following:


The Anchor

BBCode

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[anchor]{TEXT}[/anchor]

HTML

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<a name="{TEXT}"></a>

The Link (a.k.a. Go To)

BBCode

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[goto={TEXT1}]{TEXT2}[/goto]

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<a href="#{TEXT1}">{TEXT2}</a>

This solution was created by ferra1980.
Thanks.

[Jiranthos]

Not sure if this is doable in phpBB, but is worth researching, in my opinion. Although, I can already see that the URL's use an anchor already which anchors to a specific post in a thread.

http://www.truewow.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 77#p397295

The "#p397295" part will take you straight down to my post. Whereas removing it will start you off at the top of the page/thread.

This might conflict, as generally URLs are used for this purpose.

[Gnurg]

+1

[Etro]

omg....

http://truewow.org/forum/viewtopic.php? ... e&start=30



3 years ago I had the exact same idea. That BBCode wasn't carried over to the new website and I completely forgot about it.

Anyways. implemented and it's [anchor new=anchorName][/anchor'] to create anchor and w/e text[/anchor'] to go to anchor.

[anchor=test]TEST

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[anchor new=test][/anchor]