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**Category:** feature\
**Created:** [October 10, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/html-anchor-tags-should-be-made-from-markdown-headers/202 "2014-10-10T17:51:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:**  [@lloydde](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/lloydde)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/html-anchor-tags-should-be-made-from-markdown-headers/202/1 "2014-10-10T17:51:29Z")
It would be good if HTML anchor tags were automatically created for markdown headers. This is a feature of github markdown.
REPO always
STEPS
1. Go to [http://gohugo.io/overview/quickstart](http://gohugo.io/overview/quickstart)
2. Click “upgrade”
ACTUAL RESULT
At the top of [http://gohugo.io/overview/installing](http://gohugo.io/overview/installing)
EXPECTED RESULT
At the “upgrade” section of the page.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
"if the Header has multiple words, like “My Header”, you can use `[Link to my Header](#my-header)`. This works at least in GitHub flavor." from [stackoverflow.com/questions/6695439/how-do-you-create-link-to-a-named-anchor-in-multimarkdown](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6695439/how-do-you-create-link-to-a-named-anchor-in-multimarkdown)
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**Author:**  [@fedelibre](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/fedelibre)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/html-anchor-tags-should-be-made-from-markdown-headers/202/2 "2014-10-10T21:28:47Z")
I think that you should follow this issue:
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> It would be really nice is to have the anchor URLs be generated as a lowercase, hyphenated version of the title...
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**Author:**  [@halostatue](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/halostatue)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/html-anchor-tags-should-be-made-from-markdown-headers/202/3 "2014-10-27T21:07:51Z")
I have put a pair of PRs in on blackfriday that will make this work properly with a small change to hugo.
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**Author:**  [@halostatue](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/halostatue)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 5:18am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/html-anchor-tags-should-be-made-from-markdown-headers/202/4 "2014-10-29T05:18:24Z")
The PR was accepted into blackfriday. I have implemented a naïve version for Hugo:
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There are caveats to this; even though it’s a one-line change and a generally good idea, I’m not sure that I would want to merge it as is. Please read the PR for details.