How to link to part of the same document in Markdown?

Question

I am writing a large Markdown document and would like to place a table of contents of sorts at the beginning that will provide links to various locations in the document. Ho

Answer 1

Experimenting, I found a solution using but an obvious solution is to place your own anchor point in the page wherever you like, thus:

before and

after the line you want to "link" to. Then a markdown link like:

[link text](#abcde)

anywhere in the document takes you there.

The solution inserts a "dummy" division just to add the id property, and this is potentially disruptive to the page structure, but the solution ought to be quite innocuous.

(PS: It might be OK to put the anchor in the line you wish to link to, as follows:

## Heading One

but this depends on how Markdown treats this. I note, for example, the Stack Overflow answer formatter is happy with this!)