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

[ariehen]

You can’t link to individual words.

As mentioned in the links above, Obsidian supports [[wikilinks]] to headings (and blocks):

[[Title of destination note#H3 header target]]

but there’s nothing in the documentation for using Markdown links to headings.

You could try an example from one of the links above:

- [Pokemon Overview](#Pokemon%20Overview)
- [See Also](#See%20Also)

## Pokemon Overview

<div id="#Pokemon%20Overview"></div>

## See Also

<div id="#See%20Also"></div>

Here are two feature requests that seem similar.

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