Support navigation to individual items in Definition List

[jasper-zanjani]

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Description

In a knowledge base with many terms, using the Definition list extension as-is requires use of text search or simply scrolling. This is because there is no way to easily navigate to a specific Definition List item. If an id attribute were generated as it is for headings, users would be able to create links to the specific item in the body of the page.

Use Cases

Any robust knowledge base that uses the Definition List for anything more than a handful of items would benefit, since the end-user would be able to use links to support navigation to individual items.

Screenshots / Mockups

[jasper-zanjani]

In case this feature would be better supported in the extension itself, I posted another issue there as well.

[squidfunk]

Thanks for suggesting. Unfortunately, we can't do anything about it as part of this project, since we only get the Markdown as rendered HTML. However, as pointed out in Python-Markdown/markdown#1123 (comment), it's already possible to achieve it with some manual work and the Attribute List extension 😊