Re: The sub-categories do not have anchors on this page

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:01 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 05:59:15PM -0300, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2020-Dec-10, Steven Pousty wrote:
> >
> > > They certainly do at the top of the page, that's why I sent the second
> > > email. I was hoping to have anchors down the page where that actual
> topic
> > > is. The rational for this is, when I write a blog post, teach a class,
> help
> > > someone on slack... I can give them the URL right to the section I want
> > > them to read. This anchor would prevent just giving the url to the
> whole
> > > page and telling them to search for it.
> >
> > Ah -- so what you want is to have something like an icon (typically a
> > chain link icon) that appears next to the title, and points to itself?
> > Many sites do that. I think it's a useful idea and we should consider
> > it, but it's a modification that would be done to the tooling and so
> > it'd affect the whole documentation, not just this page.
>
> I see your point --- these sub-sections are mixed with others on the
> same page, so how would you know the link location? I usually dig
> through the sgml and find one, or add one if it is missing, but that is
> hardly scalable. Having a link icon makes sense --- even if they can
> just click on the subsection title and the URL changes to that section
> URL would be helpful.
>
>
+1

I would have used this numerous times recently when pointing people to
where to find answers to their questions.

David J.