- Stack Overflow: [Why you should not write inline JavaScript](http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/86589/why-should-i-avoid-inline-scripting)
- Stack Overflow: [Why you should not write inline JavaScript](http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/86589/why-should-i-avoid-inline-scripting)
## ID-based CSS selectors need to be a bit more specific
Normally, because HTML `id` attributes need to be unique to the page, it's
perfectly fine to write some JavaScript like the following:
```javascript
$('#js-my-selector').hide();
```
However, there's a feature of GitLab's Markdown processing that [automatically
adds anchors to header elements][ToC Processing], with the `id` attribute being
automatically generated based on the content of the header.
Unfortunately, this feature makes it possible for user-generated content to
create a header element with the same `id` attribute we're using in our
selector, potentially breaking the JavaScript behavior. A user could break the