# Markdown links and internal anchors in PDF

Every link stays clickable in the PDF, including bare URLs, email addresses and jumps to headings inside the document. Elsewhere jumps to headings often stop working in the PDF.

Inline, reference-style and automatic links, bare URLs and email addresses that become links on their own, and jumps to headings inside the document.

- PDF: https://legivel.com/examples/text-structure/links-anchors.pdf
- Page: https://legivel.com/examples/text-structure/links-anchors
- Open in the editor: https://legivel.com/markdown-to-pdf?sample=links-anchors
- More markdown text and structure in PDF: https://legivel.com/examples/text-structure

## Markdown source

```markdown
# Links & anchors

External: [the example site](https://example.com), a reference link to [the same site][example] defined at the bottom, an autolink in angle brackets <https://example.com/docs>, and a bare address that becomes a link on its own: https://example.com/report. So does an email address: contact@example.com.

Internal: jump to [the bottom section](#the-bottom-section). The link works inside the PDF, and the viewer's Back control returns you here.

Reference links keep long URLs out of the prose, which matters in a paragraph like this one, where three sources are cited in a row: [the first][src1], [the second][src2] and [the third][src3].

[example]: https://example.com
[src1]: https://example.com/sources/1
[src2]: https://example.com/sources/2
[src3]: https://example.com/sources/3

## A section in between

Enough prose to push the target onto a later line: the anchor of a heading is its text in lower case with the spaces turned into hyphens and the punctuation dropped, so "The bottom section" becomes `#the-bottom-section`.

## The bottom section

You made it. Now [go back to the top](#links-anchors).
```