While redoing Where and how to start learning Perl I had some difficulty finding out to link to a named anchor in another node on the Perl Monks site, for instance to Regular Expressions in Tutorials.

I’ve got it now and I wonder if this link works in every browser. I’ve tried Mozilla 1.5a and IE 6.0 and it seems to work fine.

I realize that in the majority of cases, such links are not necessary or disturbing. But sometimes it is just nice to use a named anchor anyway.

Link to a named anchor in the same node
In a long node it might aid the reader to make chapters, or just refer to some specific part in the node.
With links like these: Anchors like these can be included in the section where the link should point to:
<a href=#anchorname>Text Text Text</a>
<a href="#anchorname">Text Text Text</a> 		<a name=anchorname>Text text text</a>
<a name="anchorname">Text text text</a>

Link to a named anchor in another node
A lot of ways to link to a named anchor in another node do not work correctly, the link will be translated into a faulty URL. Some examples that do not work:
[nodename#anchorname|Text text text]
 [id://954#anchorname|Text text text]
<a href="nodename#anchorname">Text text text</a>
<a href=nodename#anchorname>Text text text</a>

The solution of a link with a named anchor seems not to be possible with square brackets […]. The only way seems to be to use the “real HTML” <a href=…> with the full path from the root. These examples work fine:
<a href="/index.pl?node=954#regexdata">Regular Expressions</a>
<a href=/index.pl?node=954#regexdata>Regular Expressions</a>

Are there easier and/or more elegant ways to do this? Am I missing something?

In reply to Named anchors in current node or in another node by woolfy

Title:
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and:  <code> code here </code>
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