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This is the documentation page, it should be transcluded into the main template page. See Template:Documentation for more information

Anchors (also known as named anchors) are elements on a page that create a place to link to, outside of MediaWiki's section anchors. This template creates a span with an ID that you specify, which must be lowercase so it doesn't interfere with MediaWiki's built-in heading/Table of Contents anchors, which use uppercase for the first letter.

Usage

Place one of the following on the page where you'd like to be able to link to directly:

• {{anc|anchorname}} - displays no text, just creates a hidden anchor.
• {{anc|anchorname|anchor text}} - anchors to specific text.

Important notes:

• Spaces cannot be used in anchor names.
• Only these symbols can be used in an anchor name: hyphen -, underscore_, colon :, period .

If you used {{anc|anchorname|anchor text}} on a page, you could link to it with [[Pagename#anchorname]] to cause the link to jump to the anchor.