TiddlyWiki5/editions/tw5.com/tiddlers/wikitext/Linking in WikiText.tid

created: 20131205155230596
modified: 20130506185813974
tags: wikitext
title: Linking in WikiText
type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki

A key capability of WikiText is the ability to make links to other tiddlers or to external websites. There are several ways of doing this:

Link to a tiddler by title:

```
[[Tiddler Title]]
```

To link to a tiddler and specify the text of the link:

```
[[Displayed Link Title|Tiddler Title]]
```

For tiddler titles that match the CamelCase rules, just typing the title will automatically create a link.

To link to an external website, type the full URL of the site:

```
http://tiddlywiki.com/

[[TW5|http://tiddlywiki.com/]]
```

For this syntax to work, the URL has to be recognisable as an URL, including a protocol such as `http://` or `file://`. You can force an external link with the extended syntax:

```
[ext[tiddlywiki.com]]

[ext[caption for link|tiddlywiki.com]]

[ext[Donate|bitcoin:1aabbdd....?amount=0.001]]
```

You can suppress a link from being recognised by preceding it with `~`. For example:

<<wikitext-example src:"* ~HelloThere is not a link
* ~http://google.com/ is not a link">>
Big docs update Finally sorting out the wikitext documentation 2013-12-05 16:21:10 +00:00			`created: 20131205155230596`
Implement explicit external links 2014-05-06 19:05:51 +00:00			`modified: 20130506185813974`
Big docs update Finally sorting out the wikitext documentation 2013-12-05 16:21:10 +00:00			`tags: wikitext`
			`title: Linking in WikiText`
			`type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki`

			`A key capability of WikiText is the ability to make links to other tiddlers or to external websites. There are several ways of doing this:`

Implement explicit external links 2014-05-06 19:05:51 +00:00			`Link to a tiddler by title:`

			```
			`[[Tiddler Title]]`
			```

			`To link to a tiddler and specify the text of the link:`

			```
			`[[Displayed Link Title\|Tiddler Title]]`
			```

			`For tiddler titles that match the CamelCase rules, just typing the title will automatically create a link.`

			`To link to an external website, type the full URL of the site:`

			```
			`http://tiddlywiki.com/`

			`[[TW5\|http://tiddlywiki.com/]]`
			```

			For this syntax to work, the URL has to be recognisable as an URL, including a protocol such as `http://` or `file://`. You can force an external link with the extended syntax:

			```
			`[ext[tiddlywiki.com]]`

			`[ext[caption for link\|tiddlywiki.com]]`

			`[ext[Donate\|bitcoin:1aabbdd....?amount=0.001]]`
			```
Big docs update Finally sorting out the wikitext documentation 2013-12-05 16:21:10 +00:00
			You can suppress a link from being recognised by preceding it with `~`. For example:

			`<<wikitext-example src:"* ~HelloThere is not a link`
			`* ~http://google.com/ is not a link">>`