Link to headers inside a file
GitHub Pages secretly turns every header into its own named file location.
This lets you navigate not just to a file, but to any header
in that file. You do it by following the filename with the header,
where spaces have been removed and punctuation is replaced with
spaces. For example, contact.md#rosie-greer. Here’s a
complete illustration.
Take the following file named contact.md:
# Contact
Here's whom to call when you have a problem.
## Tyler Perry
He has two first names! How cool is that?
## Rosie Greer
When two heads are better than one.
Suppose you want to link right to Rosie, not just to the Contact page itself?
Let’s try linking to Rosie’s location inside contact.md in a slightly modified README.md:
# Welcome to to Example.com
## This just in!
Good news! [Rosie's](/least-github-pages/contact.html#rosie-greer)
head graft is a major success!
Let's face it. You're darn lucky to be here.
Need to [contact someone](/least-github-pages/contact.html) on the team?
As you can see, the anchor to a header such as ## Rosie Greer flattened out.
Everything gets converted to lower case, and spaces are replaced with hypens.
This location name is synthesized as #rosie-greer:
Good news! [Rosie's](/least-github-pages/contact.html#rosie-greer)
head graft is a major success!
If you click Rosie’s name you’ll be taken directly to that position in the file.
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