silverstripe-cms: Cannot insert anchors into a page or use the link to anchor dialogue

Currently TinyMCE provides the ability to link to an anchor in a page but not a way to add an anchor (other than editing HTML).

Additionally, the dialogue for selecting anchors on pages doesn’t actually show any anchors - in either of the way anchors work in HTML5 (as <a name="anchor"> or just `id=“anchor”)

This issue was raised in a CMS content author training.

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State: closed
Created 6 years ago
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Comments: 16 (11 by maintainers)

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I will be putting this forward as something we could do as part of some upcoming work but I can’t promise anything. There have been some designs done for the link component in include anchors but not planned in any set of work as yet.

clarkepaul on Jun 17, 2019

I’m going to re-code this as a bug because it’s functionality that should exist but is broken, if anyone disagrees feel free to justify =)

robbieaverill on Nov 13, 2018

If a user adds an anchor via the anchor button in TinyMCE, the Insert Link dialog/ ‘Anchor on a page’ does not list newly created anchors.

They only show up if the user firstly; creates an anchor, then saves the page (either draft or publish) and then refreshes the edit page from their browser.

Steps to reproduce:

Create a page.
Create an anchor on that page.
Enter a couple of paragraphs of text as Content on that page (see http://lipsum.com).
Create a link at the base of the content to link to the anchor at the top.

This is currently impossible (note the absence of “save the page” before the last step).

NightJar on Aug 14, 2019