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How does one link to anchors on pages that don't have a "name", but are only shown with a pageId (viewpage.action?pageId=###### - that's all pages with non-latin titles and so on)?

Victor Dulepov_5wajmx

This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: Working with Anchors

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Stephen Deutsch

If you take a look at the page source, it seems like pages with special characters build their anchors the exact same way as normal pages: #<nameofpagewithoutspaces>-<headingwithoutspaces(or defined anchor name)>

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Guilherme V.

Hey Victor,

If the page's title is using a special character, Confluence will change the link for the pageID information as it's stated in the following article:

Confluence page URLs contain pageId instead of the page title

Cheers,

Stephen Deutsch

Victor Dulepov

Thanks Guilherme, but my question was not "what happens when page title contains special characters?", but "How does one link to anchors on such pages?" - and that remained unanswered. The regular way did not work - "Working with anchors" suggests me linking to the page using Confluence's regular URL syntax (http://myconfluence.com/display/spacekey/pagename#pagename-anchorname), which is simply non-feasible: all of my page titles contain non-latin (Cyrillic, to be more specific) characters, so these pages are only shown as viewpage.action URLs, they have no pretty URLs at all. I tried adding the anchor directly to the page URL (http://my.confluence.domain/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=12345678#my_anchor), and that also did not work - the page opened at the top, not at the anchor's position. Oh, another point to consider: that page is actually a blog post.

Victor Dulepov

Ok I see. So is there a way I could generate that <nameofpagewithoutspaces> part, knowing the actual page title/name (urlencode, or whatever)? It's a blog post, so it never gets shown with a "pretty URL", only with a viewpage.action one.

Victor Dulepov

Nevermind, used an ugly hack: temporarily inserted a link to that anchor on its own page and took the generated value of the anchor id therefrom. Thanks everybody, case closed.