On 12/17/20 10:11 AM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:01 AM Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us
> <mailto:br...@momjian.us>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 05:59:15PM -0300, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
>     > On 2020-Dec-10, Steven Pousty wrote:
>     >
>     > > They certainly do at the top of the page, that's why I sent the
>     second
>     > > email. I was hoping to have anchors down the page where that
>     actual topic
>     > > is. The rational for this is, when I write a blog post, teach a
>     class, help
>     > > someone on slack... I can give them the URL right to the section
>     I want
>     > > them to read. This anchor would prevent just giving the url to
>     the whole
>     > > page and telling them to search for it.
>     >
>     > Ah -- so what you want is to have something like an icon (typically a
>     > chain link icon) that appears next to the title, and points to itself?
>     > Many sites do that.  I think it's a useful idea and we should consider
>     > it, but it's a modification that would be done to the tooling and so
>     > it'd affect the whole documentation, not just this page.
> 
>     I see your point --- these sub-sections are mixed with others on the
>     same page, so how would you know the link location?  I usually dig
>     through the sgml and find one, or add one if it is missing, but that is
>     hardly scalable.  Having a link icon makes sense --- even if they can
>     just click on the subsection title and the URL changes to that section
>     URL would be helpful.
> 
> 
> +1
> 
> I would have used this numerous times recently when pointing people to
> where to find answers to their questions.

Something to help with this has been on my backlog for a bit. We may be
able to resolve this with the pgweb CSS layer.

Jonathan

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