Anchor Links are Not Persisting

Question

In Confluence 5.1.2, I have a page that has several anchors that jump around to various parts of the page. I have named all the anchors as "a_ANCHORNAME" where "ANCHORNAME" is changed to a unique name for that section. I included the "a_" to prevent the anchor from linking to the TOC in the event that the name I used was the same as the anchor in the TOC, which did happen.

The problem I'm having is that the links are not persisting after saving. For example, I had an anchor called "a_address". I created the anchor then added the link using the Advanced link section of Insert Link. After saving the page and testing the links, the anchor link failed to activate. When I went back to edit the page, the link had changed to "a_addr". Is there a maximum character limit on anchors? This happened to half of the anchor links on the page.

Another issue I encountered was a link not persisting after being saved. When I went back to edit the page to check a link that failed to work, I could not access the Insert Link screen. Pressing ctrl+K also failed to bring it up. I had to delete the link and re-add it. Any ideas on what is happening?

Tom Sayers · Answer

This is still happening on 6.15.9.  Sometimes pressing enter works, most times it does not.

I had step1, step2, step3...step9) as anchor names, but changed them to something extremely unique because I thought there might be some system-wide issue that is recognizing anchor IDs from our entire Confluence system.

I changed them to (as an example) QWERTYUIstep1, QWERTYUIstep2, QWERTYUIstep3, etc.

Whether I was creating or modifying the anchor name or link, pressing enter only worked a handful of times.  Most times it did not.  And sometimes I would change an anchor from step1 to QWERTYUIstep1 and it would either leave it as step1 or step or QWERTYUIstep.

Manually clicking Save works, but it's a shame pressing Enter doesn't work as it should.

Mike Johnson · Answer

Yeah we found the same thing, but according to the reporter that's even begun to work randomly recently.

You posted in July 2013, you're still having this issue after I assume updates and reboots, etc? I'm not sure what to even look at.

MarkC_iw78sa · Answer

I found that this occurs only when I type in the anchor link and then press enter to save it. If I type it in, then click the mouse so the text box loses focus, then click save, it always seems to work.