Can you change the name of anchors?

[7MinSec]

Hello,

Pardon if I missed this in the docs, but is there any way to rename an anchor? My site has a lot of frequently asked questions, so I end up with anchors like this

https://site/learning/security/#how-can-i-make-my-phone-more-secure

Sometimes I rewrite the question, thus that breaks the anchor for anybody who bookmarked that question. It would be nice to be able to customize/shorten the #how-can-i-make-my-phone-more-secure to something static/shorter like phone-security.

[geoffreymcgill]

Hi @7MinSec,

Thanks for the good question. Yes, you set a custom href for the anchor by adding an {#phone-security} attribute to the end of the heading value. The following sample demonstrates:

## How can I make my phone more secure? {#phone-security}

The following shows the differences between the heading with and without the custom id attribute:

// New
https://site/learning/security/#phone-security

// Old
https://site/learning/security/#how-can-i-make-my-phone-more-secure

Hope this helps.

[geoffreymcgill]

I will improve the documentation and provide some more comprehensive examples on the retype.com website.

[7MinSec]

Thanks! Is it the case though that these custom anchors do not work on a panel? Many of my FAQs are expandable via panels, so I might have something like:

==- :octagonal_sign: somesite.whatever - answers the question "What can I do to get more involved?" {#involved}

This still seems to generate a long URL like:

https://site/activate/#somesite.whatever---answers-the-question-what-can-i-do-to-get-more-involved-involved

[geoffreymcgill]

ya, there is an issue with Panels and the anchor generation.

I will log this as an issue and we will include the functionality in the next release of Retype.

[7MinSec]

Fantastic thanks!