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Bug 50633 - VisualEditor: Display and let users edit arbitrary HTML anchors, e.g. in section headings
VisualEditor: Display and let users edit arbitrary HTML anchors, e.g. in sect...
Status: ASSIGNED
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
Editing Tools (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Editing team bugs – take if you're interested!
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Depends on: 49806
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Reported: 2013-07-03 02:52 UTC by Patrick Earley
Modified: 2014-03-26 18:37 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Description Patrick Earley 2013-07-03 02:52:22 UTC
Some pages use anchors in the headings - useful for redirected articles.  Can VE display these and make them editable?

Original request:

I noticed that when editing (e.g.) TRS-80 that anchor templates, such as the ones I'd included within the section titles (e.g. [13])- for links that don't break when section titles change- don't show up in the visual editor... but they're still easily (inadvertantly) deletable, simply by backspacing over the hidden markup.

You couldn't blame a newbie- or even nontechnical editor- for deleting something that wasn't even shown to them(!), but this is the sort of thing that could be a major pain in the neck.

While I'm in favour of the visual editor in principle (the ability to contribute content shouldn't be reliant upon geekish markup skills), this *was* an issue that concerned me when I heard about the idea- namely that the large amounts of complicated templates and markup (which IMHO will never be entirely representable in the visual editor) would be inadvertantly messed up, either by users or by oversights within the design of a "helpful" visual editor itself.

Ubcule (talk) 22:28, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

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