Hide heading attributes in sidebar navigation
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Description
Some Markdown dialects (I'm using Pandoc) allow headings to be tagged various ways, often adding an ID tag, sometimes a class, and in my case even some other meta data (timestamps corresponding to the location in a video file).
This information clutters up the sidebar header navigation considerably. Anything in {} braces after headers should probably be filtered out of that view.
For example the following Markdown:
# Heading {#top}
Content
...should not show the ID attribute markup ({#top}) in the sidebar. Here's an example of what it starts looking like:

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Research direction
Start by tracing the sidebar header navigation and how Markdown headings are parsed or rendered there; the issue provides the {#top} example as the expected input. Done means attributes in braces after headings no longer appear in the sidebar while the heading text remains visible.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- markdown, typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100