Linking to a Page Section in Markdown

Heading Anchors

If you want to link to a specific section of a blog or project, you can use an anchor link. This way you can send readers directly to a section you’re referring to, or create a table of contents at the beginning. To create an anchor to a section on the same page, use a # then the section name in lower case with a - instead of spaces. For example, to link to the next section of this post, you would use [some words](#other-pages).

Other Pages

If you click on the link above, you can see that the html for the page now has #other-pages at the end. This shows that if you want to link to a section of another page, you can just put the anchor link at the end of the html for the page.

Table of contents

You can create a table of contents for your projects if you make a list of sections with anchor links. For example, the table of contents for my MTA Project would made by:

    1. [MTA Subway Commuter Analysis](#mta-subway-commuter-analysis)
    1. [Data Resources](#data-resources)
    1. [Data Processing](#data-processing)
        - [Turnstile and Station Identifiers](#turnstile-and-station-identifiers)
        - [Turnstile Data](#turnstile-data)
    1. [Commuter Counts](#commuter-counts)
    1. [Station Locations](#station-locations)
    1. [Targeting Demographics](#targeting-demographics)
    1. [Day and Time](#day-and-time)
    1. [Overview](#overview)