The Anchor Macro allows you to link to specific parts of a page. Anchor links can be especially useful when navigating between sections of a long document or when you want to link to a segment of a page and not to the page as a whole. Anchors are invisible to the reader when the page is rendered. Anchors are made up of two parts: The link The content to which you are linking. On this page:

Usage with the Macro Browser

To insert the anchor macro into a page using the Macro Browser:

Once you've found the anchor macro, click 'insert' to add it to your page.

Usage with the Wiki Markup Editor

The following code creates an anchor called "here", but you can substitute this with whatever name you like.

{anchor:here}

Once an anchor is in the page, you can link to it by putting #here (or whatever anchor name you choose) at the end of a link pointing to that page.

Parameters

Examples

In the next example, there are two anchors in this page called "top" and "bottom", which you can link to like so:

[#top]
[#bottom]

These links come out like this: top bottom.

More examples follow:

Linking to an anchor in the same page

[#anchorname]

Linking to an anchor in another page

[nameofpage#anchorname]

Linking to an anchor in a page in another space

[spacekey:nameofpage#anchorname]

Linking to headings

Confluence treats all headings as anchors. So you don't have to place an anchor but simply link to it like this:

[#textofheading]

Note that if you are adding an anchor to the site welcome message, it must be to another page. Internal-only links such as {anchor:bottom} will not render.

Related Topics

Working with Links

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