Mediawiki link within the page to a specific place, rather than a section

Question

1. Question

If I code like the following, then I have a link within the page to a specific "section"

[[#SectionTitle|displayed text]]

But what if I want to have a link within the page to a place, I mean any place?

Sometimes I might want to directly refer to a part of the page that isn't at the start of a section.

2. What I tried

I tried something like this

[[#Foo|displayed text]]
{{anchor|Foo}}

This seemed to ask me to make a page Template:Anchor

So I copied the Template:Anchor page of wikipedia.

But Template:Anchor again seemed to ask to make some new page, because Template:Anchor only says

{{#invoke:anchor|main}}

So my attempt didn't work.

Sutlej

link to official mediawiki help on anchors for section headers: "Section headings and the top of the page are automatically anchored" – Marela

Answer 1

Use the following to create the anchor:

<div id="NameOfAnchorHere">optional text</div>

which can be referenced as:

[[#NameOfAnchorHere| test]]

More information about linking in MediaWiki can be found here

Glazed

By the way, putting <div id="anchor1"></div> seems to cause line break. But I don't want to break line there. How can I solve this problem? – Sutlej

try <div id="anchor1" style="display:inline;"></div> – Glazed

Answer 2

And just to explain what's going on with {{#invoke:anchor|main}}: that's using Lua code in the Module namespace to generate the anchor.

Note that it eventually uses

<span id="NameOfAnchorHere">optional text</span>

which, I think, is nearly equivalent of <div style="display:inline;">, I think.

Tabithatablature

Answer 3

Put the closing tag at the end of the paragraph, not right after the anchor. That will then not cause a line break. Or use the span tag which can be immediately after the anchor.

Fulllength

Could you please write some example code? I'm also unsure why you're mentioning line breaks, because the original question asker didn't mention that. Does this answer the question? – Vestige