Template:Vanchor

Documentation
Visible anchor: This creates an HTML anchor (in-page link target for an  link – the part after the  ) for the given text, while still displaying the text. This template is primarily to help lists with anchored entries have cleaner, easier-to-read code. For a version with no visible text, see Template:Anchor.

This template replaces something like:



with:



which displays as:


 * Anchor name here

(without the indentation; this is an inline template). It can be linked to on this template page as Template:Vanchor. The real space and mess savings are when this is used with multiple parameters (see below).

Important: This text cannot contain markup of any kind, only plain text – no wikimarkup, no templates. If you need to anchor text that has markup, put the markup around the template:



or use a manual  in front of the text (this must be done in particular when the text is an anchor on this page and also a link to something else; you can't have a link inside an anchor or vice versa):



If the text includes an equals sign anywhere in it, you must use a numbered parameter for the text:

Also, the text is a literal string. These two are not equivalent:



Additional parameters
The template will also create up to 9 additional anchors, for spelling variations, etc. Only the first is displayed. These are given in series or numbered:



HTML note
This uses  format, in front of the target text, rather than   (with the span wrapping the displayed text) because this causes the anchor to mistakenly appear as a clickable but circular link in some old browsers.