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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# Creating an anchor in Markdown
+# Creating an [[anchor]] in Markdown
 
-Is it a native Markdown "tag" for creating an anchor? Unfortunately,
+Is it a native Markdown "tag" for creating an [[anchor]]? Unfortunately,
 I haven't any information about it at
 [Markdown syntax](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax) page.
 
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ BTW, ikiwiki doesn't displays the #foo anchor in the example
 
 >> Fixed that --[[Joey]]
 
+The 'name' attribute of the 'a' element is a depracated way to create a named anchor. The right way to do that is using the 'id' attribute of any element. This is because an anchor may refer to a complete element rather than some point in the page.
+
+Standard purity aside, if you define an anchor (using either 'a name' or 'id') to a single point in the document but refer to a complete section, the browser may just show that specific point at the bottom of the page rather than trying to show all the section.
+--[[tzafrir]]
+
 ---
 
 Considering a hierarchy like `foo/bar/bar`, I had the need to link from the
@@ -51,6 +56,19 @@ simply write [[wikilink]]s like `\[[../bar]]` (or even just `\[[..]]`?), but
 this doesn't work, so I had to resort to using `\[[foo/bar]]` instead.
 --[[tschwinge]]
 
+> I believe, that doesn't entirely solve the problem. Just assume, your hierarchy is `/foo/bar/foo/bar`.
+
+> How do you access from the page `/foo/bar/foo/bar` the `/foo/bar` and not `/foo/bar/foo/bar`?
+
+> Do we have a way to implement `\[[../..]]` or `\[[/foo/bar]]`?
+
+> Even worse, trying to link from `/foo/bar` to `/foo/bar/foo/bar` ... this will probably need `\[[./foo/bar]]` --[[Jan|jwalzer]]
+
+>> There is no ".." syntax in wikilinks, but if the link begins with "/" it
+>> is rooted at the top of the wiki, as documented in
+>> [[subpage/linkingrules]]. Therefore, every example page name you listed
+>> above will work unchanged as a wikilink to that page! --[[Joey]]
+
 ----
 
 How do I make images clickable?  The obvious guess, \[[foo.png|/index]], doesn't work.  --[[sabr]]