topic Re: Anchor links in notebook markdown in Warehousing & Analytics

Anchor links in notebook markdown

hobrob_ex — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:26:57 GMT

Does anyone know if there is a way to get anchor links working in Databricks notebooks so you can jump to sections in the same book without a full page refresh? i.e. something that works like the following html:

...

<p id="jump_to_target">Databricks for the win</p>

I want to create a table of contents for the notebook but if you use cell URLs from three dots > Copy Link in a markdown link the page refreshes in full. Not very slick.

I've read that some markdown flavours automatically create anchor links for headings which you can refer to with [Link text](#heading-text), but that doesn't seem to work in bricks, neither does trying to force the issue by using an html tag with an id.

Re: Anchor links in notebook markdown

iyashk-DB — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:07:57 GMT

@hobrob_ex , yes, this is possible, but not like the HTML way; instead, you will have to use the markdown rendering formats.

Add #Heading 1, #Heading 2.. so on in the (+Text) button of the notebook. Once these headings/ sections that you want are configured, use the Table of Contents button on the left side:

This works.

Re: Anchor links in notebook markdown

hobrob_ex — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:07:33 GMT

Ah yes, hadn't even noticed there was a ToC built in. No need to reinvent the wheel then, excellent! Thank you friend.