Subject: Re: The sub-categories do not have anchors on this page
To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>,
 Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>,
 Steven Pousty <steve.pousty@gmail.com>,
 Pg Docs <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>
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From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 10:15:12 -0500
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From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
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Subject: Re: The sub-categories do not have anchors on this page
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On 12/17/20 10:11 AM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:01 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us
> <mailto:bruce@momjian.us>> wrote:
>=20
>     On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 05:59:15PM -0300, =C3=81lvaro 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 sectio=
n
>     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 (typical=
ly a
>     > chain link icon) that appears next to the title, and points to it=
self?
>     > Many sites do that.=C2=A0 I think it's a useful idea and we shoul=
d 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.
>=20
>     I see your point --- these sub-sections are mixed with others on th=
e
>     same page, so how would you know the link location?=C2=A0 I usually=
 dig
>     through the sgml and find one, or add one if it is missing, but tha=
t is
>     hardly scalable.=C2=A0 Having a link icon makes sense --- even if t=
hey can
>     just click on the subsection title and the URL changes to that sect=
ion
>     URL would be helpful.
>=20
>=20
> +1
>=20
> 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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