mediawiki + fckeditor - anchor

[Jean-Marie Griess]

anchor ==> do not function with all the navigators!

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

Please provide more details about this problem. How are you creating anchors? What is the wikitext output you have for it? What are the current and expected results?

[Martin Kou]

Ticket expired.

[Christian]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Click anchor button
2. Enter anchor name
3. Click ok
4. Switch to wikitext and back (or save page)

Result: Expected result: #anchor_text

[Christian]

So I was wrong. The anchor button is supposed to generate an anchor that looks like this: <a name="AnchorName" />, not the link pointing to the anchor. Anchors aren't supported in MediaWiki so there is no way to generate anchors currently.

Workaround:

You can add anchor support to MediaWiki 1.13+ by picking a token to represent an anchor link (like "-" maybe) and adding it to the parser. You need to modify Parser::replaceInternalLinks to detect links that look like -AnchorName? and replace them with <a name="AnchorName" />.

Next you need to modify FCKeditor/plugins/mediawiki/fckplugin.js in the function _AppendNode. Down where it handles 'a's, you need to add some logic to look for links without an href attribute but with a name attribute and create the -AnchorName? style link.

[Mike Sullivan]

Anchors ARE permitted in Mediawiki, but not using the anchor tag. See ​http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Anchors.

Mediawiki does not support <a> tags (unless HTML is enabled), but it does support using the 'id' attribute in another supported tag (such as div).

So... to create an anchor: <div id="what_to_link_to"/>

or: <div id="what_to_link_to">text</div>

And to link to the anchor: [[Target page#what_to_link_to]]

or: [[#what_to_link_to]]

I've tested the <div> method on MW 1.13.2, but I'm pretty sure it will work with any version.

[Mike Sullivan]

One note, most browsers don't handle an empty <div></div> or <div/> well, so we should probably require that there be something within the tag bounds. Using <div></div> or <div/> causes the sidebar in the Monobook skin to be pushed down to the bottom of the page.

[Krzysztof Studnik]

MediaWiki and FCKeditor are no longer supported. Closing the ticket