Can I link to a section of my page written in Markdown?

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  berndbausch · Member · Nov 13, 2020 at 2:28 am

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  I have a few pages written in Markdown that I would like to publish on wordpress.com. They look nice, except that link anchors written like <a id="somename" /> or <a name="somename" /> are rendered as page content when I preview the page rather than becoming link targets. It seems that WordPress does not process HTML inside Markdown.

  Is there a way to link to sections of my page when I use Markdown? Alternatively, is there an automatic method to convert Markdown pages to native WordPress HTML?

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Nov 13, 2020 at 9:40 am

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  Hi there!

  Are you using the Markdown Block for those pages?

  https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/markdown-block/

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  berndbausch · Member · Nov 13, 2020 at 10:31 am

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  Thanks!

  Yes, exactly. According to the documentation, inline HTML should be supported, but the line is not processed but appears on the finished page.

  To show you the effect, I added one inline HTML item to https://tamingthecloud.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/kubernetes-on-devstack-part-1-deploying-the-devstack-cloud. I also created screenshots of the Markdown code and the preview, see https://imgur.com/a/BvQdMoK.

  I double-checked: Markdown for posts is enabled.

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  berndbausch · Member · Nov 13, 2020 at 10:33 am

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  I meant that this inline HTML:

  



  is not processed.

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  berndbausch · Member · Nov 13, 2020 at 10:34 am

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  This forum post editor is hopeless. No preview, no way to edit a post. Or is there? I am trying again.

  According to the documentation, inline HTML should be supported, but the line <a name="server"></a> is not processed but appears on the finished page.

  To show you the effect, I added one inline HTML item to https://tamingthecloud.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/kubernetes-on-devstack-part-1-deploying-the-devstack-cloud. I also created screenshots of the Markdown code and the preview, see https://imgur.com/a/BvQdMoK.

  I double-checked: Markdown for posts is enabled.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 13, 2020 at 7:35 pm

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  Hm, that’s odd. One quick clarification, while the Markdown Block has _improved_ inline HTML support, it doesn’t mean we support _all_ inline HTML yet.

  With that said though, is there any improvemend if you use id= instead of name=?