Anchor links in header menu don't work from other pages

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Hi all,

I’m stuck trying to figure out anchor link behavior from one page to another:

From my home page, with the link being set to a section of the page, the nice animated scroll works like a champ. I only have 2 pages. From my blog page, the menu navigation doesn’t work at all. I suppose this makes sense - the sections being linked to don’t exist on that page. Ok.

Do I just have to duplicate my menu symbol and change the links there? If so, how? I’ve tried updating the link to be a specific URL instead of a section and setting it to /[page name]#[section name] but anchor links don’t seem to work at all from any page except the home page.

https://wishlist.webflow.com/ideas/WEBFLOW-I-181

This wishlist item makes it seem like it’s not possible at all?

How can someone on my blog page reach a particular section of my homepage from the navigation menu?

Thanks!

Here is my site Read-Only: LINK
(how to share your site Read-Only link)

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Hi @davenovelli, maybe you should use https://yourdomain.com/#section_id ?

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Well I tried it as “/#section_id” but that breaks the link in the design view (links to “webflow.com/#section_id”.

And I read on a forum post I could use “/page_name#section_id” but that didn’t work either.

I want to keep the site at domain.webflow.io as a test site since I have features that definitely won’t work in the designer, but I also want the links to work both on that dev site, and on my custom domain.

I certainly may be missing something though!

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Correct, but the published version will work fine. This is still the recommended action, unless you use absolute URLs to your primary domain.

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