# Anchor Setting on a Background

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/anchor-setting-on-a-background/49069>\
**Category:** Elements\
**Created:** [July 22, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/anchor-setting-on-a-background/49069 "2025-07-22T20:23:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![handshaper](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/handshaper/32/27373_2.png) [@handshaper](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/handshaper)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/anchor-setting-on-a-background/49069/1 "2025-07-22T20:23:55Z")

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@dan I noticed today that setting an anchor ID on a Background component doesn’t appear to work. You can never access the anchor value from the anchor popup in the Link dialog. Switching to a container worked fine, but it seems this should work with a background component.

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**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/anchor-setting-on-a-background/49069/2 "2025-07-22T20:41:15Z")

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Ah that sounds like a bug in the component! I’ll get @ben fix that up (hopefully for tomorrow’s build).

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**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/anchor-setting-on-a-background/49069/3 "2025-07-23T06:10:24Z")

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This is fixed and will be included in the next build 🙂