Markdown Tips
Document internal links
In standard Markdown, place an anchor <a name="abcd"></a>
where you want to link to and refer to it on the same page by link text.
(This uses name= and not id=, for reasons explained in this answer.)
Remote references can use link text of course.
This works like a dream, provided you have control over the source and target texts. The anchor can even appear in a heading, thus:
A Heading in this SO entry!
produces: A Heading in this SO entry!
and we can even link to it so:
and we can even link to it so:
(On SO, the link doesn’t work because the anchor is stripped.)