diff --git a/__tests__/unit/node/markdown/markdown.test.ts b/__tests__/unit/node/markdown/markdown.test.ts
index c042d6ba..0c8e554d 100644
--- a/__tests__/unit/node/markdown/markdown.test.ts
+++ b/__tests__/unit/node/markdown/markdown.test.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+import { anchor as anchorPlugin } from '@mdit/plugin-anchor'
+import attrsPlugin from 'markdown-it-attrs'
+import { MarkdownItAsync } from 'markdown-it-async'
 import {
   createMarkdownRenderer,
   disposeMdItInstance,
@@ -110,4 +113,20 @@ describe('node/markdown/markdown', () => {
       )
     })
   })
+
+  // attrs applies at a fixed position in the core chain (before linkify),
+  // while anchor pushes to its end, so anchor always sees user-defined ids
+  // no matter which plugin is registered first
+  test('anchor respects ids from attrs regardless of plugin order', async () => {
+    for (const plugins of [
+      [attrsPlugin, anchorPlugin],
+      [anchorPlugin, attrsPlugin]
+    ] as const) {
+      const md = new MarkdownItAsync()
+      for (const plugin of plugins) md.use(plugin)
+      expect(await md.renderAsync('## Title {#custom-id}')).toContain(
+        'id="custom-id"'
+      )
+    }
+  })
 })
diff --git a/src/node/markdown/markdown.ts b/src/node/markdown/markdown.ts
index ecab0bc9..8cb826d1 100644
--- a/src/node/markdown/markdown.ts
+++ b/src/node/markdown/markdown.ts
@@ -361,8 +361,6 @@ export async function createMarkdownRenderer(
     mditCjkFriendly(md)
   }
   if (options.anchor !== false) {
-    // must be applied after attrs so that user-defined ids from curly
-    // attributes take precedence over slugified ones
     anchorPlugin(md, {
       slugify,
       getTokensText: (tokens) => {