# Creating an anchor in Markdown 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. Of course, I know that I can use HTML tag to do it, for example <a name="foo" />, but I don't want to mix Markdown and HTML code if it's not necessary. BTW, ikiwiki doesn't displays the #foo anchor in the example ("To link to an anchor inside a page...") at [[WikiLink]] page... --[[Paweł|ptecza]] > No such syntax exists in markdown. ikiwiki could certainly have a > [[preprocessor_directive|preprocessordirective]] for it, though. > > The lack of the `#foo` anchor in the anchor example on [[wikilink]] > definitely looks like a bug. --[[JoshTriplett]] >> Fixed that --[[Joey]] --- Considering a hierarchy like `foo/bar/bar`, I had the need to link from the `foo/bar/bar` page to the `foo/bar` one. It would have been convenient to simply write [[wikilink]]s like `\[[../bar]]` (or even just `\[[..]]`?), but this doesn't work, so I had to resort to using `\[[foo/bar]]` instead.