Clicking heading link in markdown doesn't scroll to heading

[m-spitfire]

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This is a bug for new "Code search and navigation".

Steps to reproduce:

• Open a markdown file in new navigation view, e.g. https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/doc/server_configurations.md
• Click to a heading in the open file (in above file, one of the names of language servers)

Expected

File to scroll to the heading

Actual result

Nothing happens except change of the page URL.

One more additional note: when opening a heading link directly, it goes to the correct place.

[look]

Hi @m-spitfire, thank you for the detailed bug report. This is working for me, can you give more details about what browser you are using? A video is helpful, too!

[m-spitfire]

Hi @look, sorry for the late response. It is working for me now too, I think I had an extension that was interfering with the expected behavior, but I am not sure. Anyway, sorry for the incorrect issue.

[spamegg1]

I have the same issue in April 2024, using Firefox and Opera on Linux (all extensions disabled).
The bug is still present! On both browsers.
After clicking a header link and not scrolling to the correct location, if I reload the page with Ctrl+R or F5, then it does scroll to the correct location.

Here is an example from one of my repositories. Using relative links in Markdown using headers.

1. Go here: my repo
2. Scroll down a bit. Find the part called "Metacognition" and click the link that takes you to metacog.md. This link works correctly and takes you to the link https://github.com/spamegg1/abstract-thinking/blob/main/metacog.md In Markdown, this link is coded as: [Link to the Metacognition section](metacog.md)
3. At the bottom of metacog.md there is a link named "Back to Elements" which is supposed to go straight back to the Metacognition section in the main README, in other words, to: https://github.com/spamegg1/abstract-thinking/blob/main/README.md#metacognition In Markdown this link is coded as: [Back to Elements](README.md#metacognition)
4. Click on that. See the bug. The page is at the top of the main README. It does not properly scroll to the Metacognition section.
5. Now reload the page with F5. This time, it does scroll!

Here is a video demonstration:

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