Markdown footnotes not working

Summary

Markdown footnote anchors are not working, both in the documentation as well as in issues, merge requests, etc. It seems that id attributes are missing. Here is a footnote as an example: 1

Steps to reproduce

  1. Visit the Markdown footnotes section in the documentation
  2. Press the link for footnote no. 2
  3. Nothing happens

You can also go to the bottom of the document and press the ↩ icon, nothing happens as well.

Expected behavior

Press the footnote link and the page should jump to the appropriate footnote.

Actual behavior

Nothing happens after pressing footnote links.

Output of checks

This bug happens on GitLab.com

  1. Example footnote ↩