Hyperref referring to the wrong label

Question

I have this code in LaTeX and I am dealing with some dynamic work with labels and references. This code works - first reference references to the first text and second to the second but I want to reset the contentCounter within each section.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\newcounter{contentCounter}
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}

\newcommand{\inserttext}{%
    \refstepcounter{contentCounter}
    \par This is inserted text widh ID \thesection.\thecontentCounter. \\
    \label{text:\thesection.\thecontentCounter}
}

\begin{document}

\setcounter{section}{1}
\inserttext

\setcounter{section}{2}
\inserttext

\newpage
\textbf{References}

\setcounter{section}{1}
\hyperref[text:\thesection.1]{first text}

\setcounter{section}{2}
\hyperref[text:\thesection.2]{second text}

\end{document}

I tried to reset the counter but second reference is not working. Where's the problem? Thank you.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\newcounter{contentCounter}
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}

\newcommand{\inserttext}{%
    \refstepcounter{contentCounter}
    \par This is inserted text with the ID \thesection.\thecontentCounter. \\
    \label{text:\thesection.\thecontentCounter}
}

\begin{document}

\setcounter{section}{1}
\inserttext

\setcounter{section}{2}
\setcounter{contentCounter}{0}
\inserttext

\newpage
\textbf{References}

\setcounter{section}{1}
\hyperref[text:\thesection.1]{first text}

\setcounter{section}{2}
\hyperref[text:\thesection.1]{second text}

\end{document}

Answer 1

(If this is not a duplicate....)

All that is needed in this case is to use the optional argument to \newcounter:

\newcounter{contentCounter}[section]

Where the [section] indicates that contentCounter should be reset to zero with each use of \section.

Note that if you need to modify a counter initially defined without the optional argument (or, conversely, to modify a counter defined with the optional argument), you can use the chngcntr package and its commands: \counterwithin and \counterwithout. Both commands include a 'starred' variant, which suppresses redefinition of the related \the<counter> commands.