Why anchor link does not work?
Asked by Andrey Ponomarenko:

Hello!

I have a page <https://aurrency.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/G/pages/655675/GFE>

And I have the following anchor link:

<https://aurrency.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/G/pages/655675/GFE#%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B5-%D1%81-%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%BC%D0%B8-%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BC%D1%8B>

But when anyone clicks the second link(anchor one), he gets on the top of the page <https://aurrency.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/G/pages/655675/GFE>  
instead of getting right to the place where anchor link set.

1. Is that a bug or am I doing something wrong?

2. When I have titles inside table, they do not work like anchors. Why? Can I put an anchor link to row in the table?

Thanks in advance for an answer.


Answers:
author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Andrey Ponomarenko](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3615214)

Have you followed [these instructions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/insert-links-and-anchors-724764900.html#InsertLinksandAnchors-Linktoananchoronapage) for creating and inserting anchors?

Not sure what you mean by titles within tables - but you can certainly anchor to a table row (just tested this in our instance to verify). Same instructions above will help with this!

Ste

comments: author: Andrey Ponomarenko
body: [@Ste Wright](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1166470) hi!

Yes, I've tried, but it did not work for me.

They suggest 2 options.

a. "Choose **Insert** \> **Other Macros** , then find and select the Anchor macro"  
I can not find Anchor Macros. How should I spell it, so I can get it via search field?

I attached a screenshot below, where you can see that there s nothing found when I type "Anchor"

![?????? ?????? 2019-12-02 ? 10.00.53.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74631i706CE71DE475CCD2/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "?????? ?????? 2019-12-02 ? 10.00.53.png")

b. Type **{** and the beginning of the macro name, then select the Anchor macro

I type "{A" but nothing happens.

I attached one another screenshot below, where you can see that after typing "{A" I can not select anything from anywhere.

![?????? ?????? 2019-12-02 ? 10.06.38.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74632i895325E4FA89686F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "?????? ?????? 2019-12-02 ? 10.06.38.png")

**So, my questions are:**

1. The one from my fist post

2. Why I can not add anchor by none of these 2 suggested options? Is it a bug here, or am I doing something wrong?

**PS:** about anchoring rows of a table. By titles within tables I meant using heading "H1" inside the table

When I use heading "H1" outside the table - I can see an anchor icon there(however it does not work. look question 1)

When I use heading "H1" inside the table - I can NOT see an anchor icon.

3. Why so?

**PPS:**

there are 3 question now, I would feel grateful if your answers would stick to my numeration.


author: Andrey Ponomarenko
body: [@Ste Wright](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1166470) yo! \^


author: Andrey Ponomarenko
body: [@Ste Wright](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1166470)


author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Andrey Ponomarenko](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3615214)

Are you on the new Confluence experience rather than the classic one?

If so, anchors are a limited functionality on there at the moment - the most recent release for this was anchors for just headers - see the [improvement notes here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/confluence-editing-improvements-945107733.html#ConfluenceEditingImprovements-Linkableheadings).

If you want to use anchors as they were originally designed, you'll need to use the classic experience at this point.

Ste


author: Andrey Ponomarenko
body: Hi [@Ste Wright](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1166470)

I am on a Classic one.

**So, my questions are:**

1. The one from my first post

2. Why I can not add anchor by none of these 2 suggested options? Is it a bug here, or am I doing something wrong?

When I use heading "H1" outside the table - I can see an anchor icon there(however it does not work. look question 1)

When I use heading "H1" inside the table - I can NOT see an anchor icon.

3. Why so?


author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Andrey Ponomarenko](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3615214)

If you're seeing Anchor Links next to titles, you're on the new experience. It would also answer why you can't see macros via the "{" - as they're activated by the "/" in the new version.

So, for your questions:

* On the new experience, you can only use the anchors to titles - click the anchor link to copy it and paste it to use it. If you want to build more customised anchors, you'll need to use a classic page (press to create a new page and just select "Blank Page"
* Based on comments on the suggestion - see [CONFCLOUD-66773](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-66773) - it would appear it does not work with headers in tables at this stage in the new experience.
* There appears to be some issues using the header anchor links - see [CONFCLOUD-67771](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67771)

I would advise moving back to the other version if using anchors just for now :)

Ste


author: Andrey Ponomarenko
body: Hi [@Ste Wright](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1166470)

Thank you for an answer! Got it!


author: Ste Wright
body: No worries :) - if this solved your issue, can you let other users on the community know by pressing the "Accept Answer" button at the top of this answer?

Ste


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