---
title: Disable Anchor Rewriting
summary: Get more control over how hash links are rendered.
---
# Disable Anchor Rewriting
Anchor links are links with a "#" in them. A frequent use-case is to use anchor links to point to different sections of
the current page. For example, we might have this in our template:
```ss
```
Things get tricky because of we have set our `` tag to point to the root of the site. So, when you click the
first link you will be sent to http://yoursite.com/#section1 instead of http://yoursite.com/my-long-page/#section1
In order to prevent this situation, the SSViewer template renderer will automatically rewrite any anchor link that
doesn't specify a URL before the anchor, prefixing the URL of the current page. For our example above, the following
would be created in the final HTML
```ss
```
There are cases where this can be unhelpful. HTML anchors created from Ajax responses are the most common. In these
situations, you can disable anchor link rewriting by setting the `SSViewer.rewrite_hash_links` configuration value to
`false`.
**app/_config/app.yml**
```yml
SilverStripe\View\SSViewer:
rewrite_hash_links: false
```
Alternatively, it's possible to disable anchor link rewriting for specific pages using the `SSViewer::setRewriteHashLinksDefault()` method in the page controller:
```php
namespace Example\HashLink;
use PageController;
use SilverStripe\View\SSViewer;
class ExamplePageController extends PageController
{
protected function init()
{
parent::init();
SSViewer::setRewriteHashLinksDefault(false);
}
}
```