Resolve "User-generated permalink IDs collide with GitLab interface"

What does this MR do?

Prevents ID values automatically generated by headers in GitLab Flavored Markdown from colliding with IDs used elsewhere in the GitLab interface. This can cause confusion when, for instance, a selector looks for a merge request tab with id="pipelines" and there is a header with the same ID earlier in the DOM.

How this works:

• All header IDs generated with GitLab Flavored Markdown are namespaced with id="user-content_foo"
• All anchor links which point to these IDs continue to use the non-namespaced hash <a href="#foo">...</a>
• When a page is loaded or when the hashchange event is triggered, javascript will automatically search for #user-content_foo if #foo cannot be found, and scroll to that position instead.

Before

After:

Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

• Changelog entry added
• Tests
  • Added for this feature/bug
  • All builds are passing
• Conform by the merge request performance guides
• Conform by the style guides
• Branch has no merge conflicts with master (if it does - rebase it please)
• Squashed related commits together

What are the relevant issue numbers?

Closes #22781 (closed)

See also prior attempts to address this issue: #3908 (closed), !2023 (merged), !2024 (merged)

app/assets/javascripts/lib/utils/common_utils.js

-/* eslint-disable func-names, space-before-function-paren, wrap-iife, no-var, no-unused-expressions, no-param-reassign, no-else-return, quotes, object-shorthand, comma-dangle, camelcase, one-var, vars-on-top, one-var-declaration-per-line, no-return-assign, consistent-return, padded-blocks, max-len */
+/* eslint-disable func-names, space-before-function-paren, wrap-iife, no-var, no-unused-expressions, no-param-reassign, no-else-return, quotes, object-shorthand, comma-dangle, camelcase, one-var, vars-on-top, one-var-declaration-per-line, no-return-assign, consistent-return, padded-blocks, max-len, prefer-template */
 (function() {
   (function(w) {
     var base;
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@
     // automatically adjust scroll position for hash urls taking the height of the navbar into account
     // https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/1768
     w.gl.utils.handleLocationHash = function() {
+      var hash = w.gl.utils.getLocationHash();
+      if (!hash) return;
+
       var navbar = document.querySelector('.navbar-gitlab');
       var subnav = document.querySelector('.layout-nav');
       var fixedTabs = document.querySelector('.js-tabs-affix');
@@ -104,9 +107,21 @@
       var adjustment = 0;
       if (navbar) adjustment -= navbar.offsetHeight;
       if (subnav) adjustment -= subnav.offsetHeight;
-      if (fixedTabs) adjustment -= fixedTabs.offsetHeight;
 
-      window.scrollBy(0, adjustment);
+      // scroll to user-generated markdown anchor if we cannot find a match
+      if (document.getElementById(hash) === null) {
+        var target = document.getElementById('user-content_' + hash);
+        if (target && target.scrollIntoView) {
+          target.scrollIntoView(true);
+          window.scrollBy(0, adjustment);
+        }
+      } else {
+        // only adjust for fixedTabs when not targeting user-generated content
+        if (fixedTabs) {
+          adjustment -= fixedTabs.offsetHeight;
+        }
+        window.scrollBy(0, adjustment);
+      }
     };
 
     gl.utils.updateTooltipTitle = function($tooltipEl, newTitle) {