Editing Template:Anchor

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This template adds an HTML anchor to the page (silently, i.e. without displaying any text in the page's user-facing content).  Think of it as a "phantom section" that can be linked to by an internal link containing a pound sign -- e.g. if a page contains <nowiki>{{anchor|foo}}</nowiki>, that part of the page can be linked to by <nowiki>[[#foo]]</nowiki> from the same page, or <nowiki>[[Page Name#foo]]</nowiki> from another page.  Up to ten alternate titles can be defined at any call, e.g. <nowiki>{{anchor|foo|bar}}</nowiki> (using more results in an error).  Note that they are case-sensitive, and may not like special characters.

Anchors allow editors to link to a specific part of a page even if there is no section header there.  They can also be useful if an editor wishes to rename a section without breaking all of the links that lead to that section (just drop <nowiki>{{anchor|Old Section Name}}</nowiki> into the header).

For more information, see [[wikipedia:Template:Anchor|Template:Anchor on Wikipedia]] (which is the source of this template).
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