x/website: anchor links don't show up if one hovers directly on a heading

[mvdan]

Splitting from #68596 (comment), which got ignored as it was a closed issue.

When I hover over "Doc Links", nothing happens - which is why I didn't even realise this got fixed earlier today. I have to move my cursor to the right of the heading - where the "reverse P" anchor symbol would be - for it to appear, as if I had to know ahead of time it would be there.

Can we make the anchor link show up whenever I hover over any of the heading area too? I think this is how anchor link hovers usually work on other websites, or at least that's how I intuitively think they work.

cc @hyangah @matttproud @cespare

[gabyhelp]

Related Issues

• x/website: Effective Go: Visible anchors for linkable sections #50211
• spec: headings should include anchor links #56009 (closed)
• x/pkgsite: anchor links sometimes do not work #40556 (closed)
• x/website: anchor links don't seem to work properly anymore #49754 (closed)
• cmd/godoc: make it easier to get anchor links #13748 (closed)

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[cagedmantis]

cc @golang/tools-team

[mvdan]

The way anchor links work on pkgsite is also how I would expect - hovering over the heading text in https://pkg.go.dev/io#pkg-variables shows the anchor symbol.

[findleyr]

Thanks. This has always bothered me as well!

We would welcome a contribution to fix this.

[gopherbot]

Change https://go.dev/cl/663875 mentions this issue: _content: show anchor links when hovering over article headers