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= External links  =
 
= External links  =
  
*Link with no text (the code needed and an example):
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== Link with no text ==
  
<nowiki>[http://example.com/]</nowiki>
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This code produces a basic link to the example website: <nowiki>[http://example.com/]</nowiki>. It creates a link that looks like this:
 
  [http://example.com/]
 
  [http://example.com/]
  
*Link containing text:
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== Link containing text ==
  
<nowiki>[http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link example.com website]</nowiki>  
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After pasting a link, hit the spacebar once and then type the text as you would like for it to appear in the link. <nowiki>[http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link]</nowiki> The link still takes you to example.com, but it looks like this:
 
  [http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link]
 
  [http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link]
 
*After pasting your link, you would then hit the spacebar once and then write the title of the link.
 
 
<nowiki>The [[Adding a link]][http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link website].</nowiki>
 
The [[Adding a link]] [http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link website].
 
  
 
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Revision as of 20:39, 20 January 2016

External links

Link with no text

This code produces a basic link to the example website: [http://example.com/]. It creates a link that looks like this:

[1]

Link containing text

After pasting a link, hit the spacebar once and then type the text as you would like for it to appear in the link. [http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link] The link still takes you to example.com, but it looks like this:

The guide to adding a link


Internal links

Linking to an internal wiki page

Notice the double brackets as opposed to the single brackets in the external link examples.

[[Introduction]]

now looks like this:

Introduction

Internal links with different wording

If you want the link to contain text that is different from the page you are referencing (example: Maybe you don't want to say "Introduction" as it does not read well, but you DO want it to link to the Introduction page):

Welcome to our Freecycle wiki page where you can learn all about why we are here. Let me [[Introduction|introduce]] myself, who we are and what we do! 

Your page will look like this when completed with the proper wiki lingo; the brackets AND the bar *|*. Notice this bar is NOT the capital letter *I* or lowercase *l*. The bar is normally found above the *\* bar.

Welcome to our Freecycle wiki page where you can learn all about why we are here. Let me introduce myself, who we are and what we do! 

Link to a specific section of an internal wiki page

If you want to link with a specific section rather than an entire wiki page, this is the format you use: [[Page_name#Section_heading|optional text]]

This takes you to the part of the page titled "Section heading" but it will look like this:

optional text
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