Missing anchor links in certain TOC topics?

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I seem to be missing the anchor links next to the headings, which allowed me to link to a specific section directly, for instance in this topic, like described in the start post:

Is this me or did this functionality disappear?

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They should be there? I’m currently on my phone, but I grabbed this one by long-pressing on the gap to the side of the heading:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/discotoc-automatic-table-of-contents/111143#how-does-it-work-3

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Yes, that topic has those anchor links, but that’s a topic that does not have the DiscoTOC.

But this topic has a TOC and does not have anchors: Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes and this one does not have anchors either Setup DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso)

EDIT Hmm…this topic does have anchors: Discourse REST API Documentation

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Ah, I can explain. The topic you linked has html headings (<h3>, <h4> and so on) and initially the TOC component had its own logic for adding heading anchors. However, since then, core added automatic anchors and recently I removed the custom anchor login in the theme component. However, core’s anchor feature only works for Markdown headings (using ###).

So that’s the OP here has anchors, but the linked guide doesn’t.

We probably should update that guide to use Markdown instead of HTML @JammyDodger.

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Ah! That explains things perfectly, thanks Penar!!

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I was clearly not paying enough attention yesterday. :slight_smile: I have now swopped in Markdown headers for the two example topics. :+1:

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