Multi-paragraph anchor in HTML

Multi-paragraph anchor in HTML

[Pi Fisher]

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Hello,

I'm trying to write some markdown that, when compiled to HTML, will give me 
an anchor tag that covers multiple paragraphs (and a couple headings). 
Because the markdown for an anchor (`[link text](link-target)`) doesn't 
support multiple paragraphs, I'm using raw HTML tags. Here's an example of 
what I'm trying to do.

Input:
``````markdown
<a href="#top">

# Heading

Paragraph

</a>
``````

Desired output:
``````html
<a href="#top">
<h1 id="heading">Heading</h1>
<p>Paragraph</p>
</a>
``````

Real output:
``````html
<p><a href="#top"></p>
<h1 id="heading">Heading</h1>
<p>Paragraph</p>
<p></a></p>
``````

Is there a way to achieve what I'm trying to get? Possibly a way to say 
"don't wrap this line in a paragraph", or maybe an extension that allows 
for multi-paragraph links?

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Re: Multi-paragraph anchor in HTML

[Bastien DUMONT]

As for your first question, you can achieve this by inserting these tags as raw blocks:

```{=html}
<a href="#top">
```

# Heading

Paragraph

```{=html}
</a>
```

Le Friday 18 March 2022 à 10:03:28AM, Pi Fisher a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to write some markdown that, when compiled to HTML, will give me an
> anchor tag that covers multiple paragraphs (and a couple headings). Because the
> markdown for an anchor (`[link text](link-target)`) doesn't support multiple
> paragraphs, I'm using raw HTML tags. Here's an example of what I'm trying to
> do.
> 
> Input:
> ``````markdown
> <a href="#top">
> 
> # Heading
> 
> Paragraph
> 
> </a>
> ``````
> 
> Desired output:
> ``````html
> <a href="#top">
> <h1 id="heading">Heading</h1>
> <p>Paragraph</p>
> </a>
> ``````
> 
> Real output:
> ``````html
> <p><a href="#top"></p>
> <h1 id="heading">Heading</h1>
> <p>Paragraph</p>
> <p></a></p>
> ``````
> 
> Is there a way to achieve what I'm trying to get? Possibly a way to say "don't
> wrap this line in a paragraph", or maybe an extension that allows for
> multi-paragraph links?
> 
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Re: Multi-paragraph anchor in HTML

[Gwern Branwen]

I'm not sure why it needs to be an <a> at all. Isn't this what <div>
tags are for? Set an ID on a div wrapper, and link as necessary. Spans
for inlines, and div for blocks.

Also, use of '#top' seems unnecessarily risky to me. That is already a
built-in browser anchor: every HTML page is considered to have a 'top'
element at the top of the page. Attempting to redefine it is asking
for subtle issues down the road.

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Re: Multi-paragraph anchor in HTML

[Pi Fisher]

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Thank you Bastien! raw_attribute is just the extension I needed!

Gwern, I'm turning this into a link with an anchor and an href, not a link
target with an ID. I agree that using `top` as an ID is generally a poor
choice. (Also, for my MWE, I decided `#top` was shorter than `
http://example.com`. My real code goes somewhere else.)

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