Editing:Links

Internal Links

There are two types of links that we need to consider. The first are internal links that point to pages within this website. Such links have two [ (square brackets) each side of an area of text, like this:

[[The Working Party]]

which produces this link

The Working Party

If you want to link to a particular page (say 'The Working Party' page), but the text says something else (such as 'Hadas Working Party') then you can use the | (pipe) symbol to seperate the link from the text. See this example to see what I mean:

[[The Working Party|Hadas Working Party]]

which produces

Hadas Working Party

If your internal link is coloured red instead of blue/purple, this is because the page referenced doesn't exist. By clicking on the link, a logged in user will be taken to the edit page, where they can add content and create the missing page (see How to add a new page section of this guide).

You may also create an internal link to jump to a particular header/sub-header within a page (just as the Table of Contents links do). To do so, use the # (sharp) symbol and name of the header as the link.

[[#External Links|jump to external links section]]

will produce

jump to external links section

Further you can jump to a header inside another page by adding the #Link after the page name, like so

[[Newsletter_200_October_1987#Page_4|jump to Newsletter 200 page 4]]

jump to Newsletter 200 page 4

External Links

An external link points to pages on other websites or within the Hadas website but outside the wiki system (ie. they do not appear under /wiki/index.php/). All external pages have to be referenced by their full address (called a URL). Instead of two [ (square brackets) either side of text, an external link only uses one each side. Example:

[http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/]

produces the link

[1] (http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/)

"Hold on!" I hear you cry, "That didn't show the address but just a number!" To show a description, rather than a numeric reference, after the URL put a space followed by your description text, like this:

[http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/ The Museum of London]

which now gives the desired result:

The Museum of London (http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/)

Your browser may also display a little graphic indicating it is an external link to another website. Some browsers, especially older versions of Internet Explorer may not display this graphic. Unfortunately this is a limitation of Internet Explorer.

That is all you need to do to add web links to the site.

Email Link

A special case of links is the email link. If you want to include an email address for people click on and launch their email client, create an external link with mailto: followed by the address and then a text description. Example:

[mailto:admin@hadas.org.uk admin@hadas.org.uk]

will generate this link

admin@hadas.org.uk (mailto:admin@hadas.org.uk)

There should also be an icon to indicate that this is an email link.

The text description does not have to be the email address, therefore

[mailto:website@hadas.org.uk Hadas website editors]

will produce the following link:

Hadas website editors (mailto:website@hadas.org.uk)

and clicking on the link will open a new email for website@hadas.org.uk