volto-heading-block doesn't create anchors to link to headings

[kenmanheimer]

Unlike Volot core headings, volto-heading-block headings do not include anchors for linking, eg from the Volto table-of-contents block (see #11). This drastically reduces the usefulness of volto-heading-block.

[davisagli]

The feature to create anchors was added recently in volto (plone/volto#3540). I agree it would be nice to support it here too. Contributions welcome, otherwise it will probably take some time for us to get to it.

[kenmanheimer]

I really appreciate the quick response, and recognize the low priority. In fact, having discovered that mouse-pasting rendered headers of any level endows them with the full functionality (recognized by ToC and anchors automatically created – I guess that's thanks to plone/volto#3540?), I see that I'm better off creating a heading of the level I want with HTML block, rendering that so I can copy it and paste it instead of the HTML block version, and then I have what I want.

This all suggests that volto-heading-block is the wrong direction to head.

I think all further effort invested should be to provide for easy expression of any level heading. I'm ok with the apparent reluctance to physically and conceptually crowd the selected-text options with more than "H" and "h". But there are plenty of very undisruptive ways to make it easy to use the standard facilities to add h4, h5, and h6:

• Markdown '#' and '##' recognition could be extended to work for '###', '####', and '#####'!
• The Heading edit 'Block' sidebar "Advanced" menu could include something to set the heading level to any valid ones. (The Advanced knob already includes something to change how the header looks in the ToC. Options to actually change the heading to the other heading levels seems at least as important!)

I would appreciate a reply but don't require it for you to close this issue. Thanks again for your attention!

[acsr]

Interesting aspects how to make the heading block adjustable to editors needs. I stumbled over this issue as well and worked around this by adding a plain HTML block before the heading block to add anchors, but the issue to create proper TOCs remains. Should be solved as an integrated solution. Surprising that this is still an open issue.