Heads up - there is an issue with anchors not working with new navigation

Sussi Åström

Hi,

Wishing for others to know, if using the new navigation in Confluence Cloud, that anchors do not work when new navigation turned on.

I spent a few hours today trying to figure out why my anchors do not work, until I contacted support and they let me know that there is an issue.

I wish Atlassian would have informed that there are issues - a simple notification banner would have been great, like when they informed us that the new navigation was available.

Here's a link to the issue support gave me https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-81174

Barbara Szczesniak

Thank you, @Sussi Åström, for letting us know. Sorry for the hours you spent figuring this out. 🤯

We aren't using (been forced to go to) the new navigation yet, but this is highly concerning. I am documenting our application in Confluence and use many anchor links. We run our space through Scroll Viewport to produce a web site for our users to read the documentation, so I'm hoping that this doesn't affect the links working there.

I can let the team members who work in Confluence about this, but I'm hoping they fix it before we have the new navigation.

EDIT: The Jira ticket you linked to is about links in a Table of Contents macro, which is not anchor links. Is there an additional issue with links to anchors?