# Consistent attribute syntax

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/consistent-attribute-syntax/272>\
**Category:** Extensions\
**Created:** [September 4, 2014, 10:28am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/consistent-attribute-syntax/272 "2014-09-04T10:28:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![mb21](https://talk.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/mb21/32/162_2.png) [@mb21](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/mb21)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 8:10am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/consistent-attribute-syntax/272/99 "2015-10-20T08:10:59Z")

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@tin-pot, yes, this was already [discussed at length here](http://talk.commonmark.org/t/feature-request-automatically-generated-ids-for-headers/115) and has been [implemented by e.g. pandoc](http://pandoc.org/README.html#extension-auto_identifiers). However, consistent attribute syntax solves a lot more problems.

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