Difference between revisions of "Adding a link"

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*After pasting your link, you would then hit the spacebar once and then write the title of the 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>  
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  <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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  The [[Adding a link]] [http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link website].
  
 
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*Links containing text different from the title 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):  
 
*Links containing text different from the title 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 <nowiki>[[Introduction|introduce]]</nowiki> myself, who we are and what we do!"
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  Welcome to our Freecycle wiki page where you can learn all about why we are here. Let me <nowiki>[[Introduction|introduce]]</nowiki> 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.  
 
*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 [[Introduction|introduce]] myself, who we are and what we do!"
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  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!  
  
  

Revision as of 04:54, 22 October 2009

External links

  • Link with no text (the code needed and an example):
[http://example.com/]
[1]
  • Link containing text:
[http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link example.com website] 
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.
The [[Adding a link]][http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link website]. 
The Adding a link The guide to adding a link website.


Internal links

  • Linking to an internal page (notice the double brackets as opposed to the single brackets in the external link examples?):

[[Introduction]]

now looks like this:

Introduction

  • Links containing text different from the title 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! 


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