Linking of Words/headers in Obsidian not working in the same markdown file

[ariehen]

I edited your post to put your example in a code block so the forum doesn’t render it:

`[Text-Test](#text-test)`

Some links to have a look over:

Link to heading - Markdown equivalent?

So, you can link to a specific part of another note as follows… [[Title of destination note#H3 header target]] That’s a wiki link. Is there such an equivalent for standard Markdown? Here is a GitHub discussion on the topic. It suggests anchor targets in a HTML page can be reached via a Markdown link - but I’m interested in targeting pats of an #internal-links, a note.

Heading link compatibility

Yes, I’ve tried it both ways - using a Github flavor heading id with an empty <div> id equal to the Obsidian heading id as well as an Obsidian heading id with an empty <div> id equal to the Github flavor heading id. And I tried it with the <div> before and after the heading. Here is my latest test, using the Obsidian heading id with an empty <div> after the heading for Github. This works in Obsidian, as you would expect, but Github doesn’t pick up the <div> id like you would hope: - [Pokemon O…

Internal links to headers

What I’m trying to do I’m using standard Markdown links instead of Wiki links, which are Obsidian’s default, because I use MD docs in some other readers which don’t support wikilinks. It seems that Obsidian does not properly follow Markdown links to headers like [my header](#my-header) when I have # My header in document. Instead it constructs following link: [my header](my%20header) which doesn’t really work outside Obsidian. Unfortunately Common Mark does not specify exact syntax for intern…