A link to a page including an anchor doesn’t go to that anchor – URL gets changed

My WordPress site is set up with “Post name” permalinks.

Now I created an anchor in every page at a certain place:

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But I find that when I try to link to that page, and its anchor, like this:

http://example.com/mypost#my_anchor

.. it doesn’t work. The URL gets converted on the fly to:

http://example.com/mypost/#my_anchor

… so the link never goes to the correct part of the page.

Anyone know what I’m doing wrong – how to correct this?

(Note: I did see a very similar question where someone had this a problem after they put an extra slash on the end, after the anchor part, but I’m not doing that.)

Thanks.

PS It doesn’t work if I use a div with an id instead of the anchor, either.

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