Forum:Forcing Comments in TOC?

Hi, I've done many edits and housecleaning and visual improvements to w:c:paradiseislandhd but just a few things I can't work out. I've learnt that a TOC is only automatically created with 4+ headers, so to force a TOC you use or to float a TOC to the right use  - both of which I have now used. However, I can not work out (or find in all the support forums) what triggers the Comments (#article-comments) link to appear at the bottom of a TOC, and then if there was a way to force it.

The best alternative I have come up with is to create as a very last line with nothing after it: ==Comments== to force a pseudo-Comments link that is "close-enough", but not "good coding".

Ta, DarkMoonRising 07:17, June 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't think there is a way to force the TOC to include a link to the comments, but it's certainly not necessary. You have a "Comments" link at the top of every page right next to the article title that people are going to be clicking. Since TOC's are automatically collapsed for anons, well, anons at least aren't going to use the TOC to get to comments. (And guess what, every user starts out as an anon, so there's a chance they've picked up the habit of clicking that comments link.)


 * Ha, the obvious you overlook ;) Just when you get used to using the link in the TOC and then when its not there on a page with a massively long page content, eg: w:c:ParadiseIslandHD:Versions (yet it appears on smaller pages for some reason), it was a nuisance scrolling to the start of the comments each time so I retro-fitted links. It seems others appreciate it even tho I am now conciosuly aware the link is at the top of the page DarkMoonRising 08:11, June 22, 2012 (UTC)

Also curious how you manage those fancy sigs :-) DarkMoonRising 13:55, June 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * You can actually create your own custom signature right in Special:Preferences. When signature code becomes long and complex, it's polite to put it inside a template, which I have done. There are some pretty confusing tricks to the process of creating a templated signature -- so I'd rather not throw all of that info at you at the same time. It would be best to start a new forum topic.