Sphinx Themes: Permalinks to heading

Permalinks are small anchors next to the heading which allows to copy and share URL directly to that heading within the page. By default, Sphinx generates those permalinks with ¶ character (the paragraph sign), but the most themes hides it until heading mouse hover.

Markup

By default, each heading contains a <a> link to the heading, as the following HTML markup:

<h1>Architecture<a class="headerlink" href="#architecture" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>

The complete URL will be e.g., https://on.documatt.com/example/installation.html#architecture.

conf.py

html_permalinks

(default True)

Whether to generate permalinks to the heading in the HTML output.

html_permalinks_icon

(default ¶)

Text which will be used as permalink anchor. It could be single Unicode character or arbitrary HTML string like icon font.

html_permalinks_icon = "<i class='fas fa-link'></i>"