To link to an external [[resource|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_resource]] such as a website or a file, type its //full// [[URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL]], including the [[URI scheme|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme]] such as a protocol (e.g. `http://`, `file://`) or `mailto`:
For this syntax to work, the URL has to be recognisable as a URL. Otherwise, it is treated as a tiddler title. As a result, in case you want to link to a resource locatable using a relative path, use the extended syntax:
[[Linking in WikiText]] does not lend itself well to creating dynamic links. The reason is because this WikiText link:
```
[[link to myself|Linking in WikiText]]
```
is shorthand for using the LinkWidget and TextWidget like this:
```
<$link to="Linking in WikiText">
<$text text="link to myself"/>
</$link>
```
Since both the link title ("link to myself") and the link target ("Linking in ~WikiText") are used as widget attributes, no WikiText expansion takes place.
For example, an attempt to use a [[reference|TextReference]] and a [[variable|Variables]] to dynamically generate a link like this:
is the same as trying to use the LinkWidget and TextWidget like this:
<<.bad-example """```
<$link to="<<currentTiddler>>">
<$text text="{{!!caption}}"/>
</$link>
```""">>
This will not work as desired. Content inside of quoted widget attributes is [[treated as a literal value|HTML in WikiText]] and protected from WikiText expansion, so it will render like this:
