title: LinkWidget
created: 201310241419
modified: 20150228144334000
tags: Widgets
caption: link

The `link` widget generates links to tiddlers. (Use the HTML `<a>` element to generate external links).

! Content and Attributes

|!Attribute |!Description |
|to |The title of the target tiddler for the link (defaults to the [[current tiddler|Current Tiddler]]) |
|aria-label |Optional [[Accessibility]] label |
|tooltip |Optional tooltip WikiText |
|tabindex |Optional numeric [[tabindex|https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/tabIndex]] |
|draggable |"yes" to enable the link to be draggable (defaults to "yes") |
|tag |Optional tag to override the default "a" element |

The content of the link widget is rendered within the `<a>` tag.

The default value of the tooltip attribute is supplied by the <<.vlink tv-wikilink-tooltip>> variable.

This means that you can control the text of a link tooltip in several ways:

```
<$link to="HelloThere" tooltip="Custom tooltip">Link 1</$link>

<$set name="tv-wikilink-tooltip" value="I'm a link to {{!!title}}">
<$link to="HelloThere">Link 2</$link>
</$set>

```

Renders as:

<$link to="HelloThere" tooltip="Custom tooltip">Link 1</$link>

<$set name="tv-wikilink-tooltip" value="I'm a link to {{!!title}}">
<$link to="HelloThere">Link 2</$link>
</$set>

Note that the tooltip is rendered with the current tiddler set to the target of the link.

A useful convention is to set the tooltip like this:

```
\define tv-wikilink-tooltip()
<$transclude field="tooltip"><$transclude field="title"/></$transclude>
\end
```

This causes the tooltip to be the ''tooltip'' field of the target tiddler. If the field isn't present, then the title is used instead.

! CSS Classes

* `tc-tiddlylink` - applied to all links
* `tc-tiddlylink-external` - applied to external, non-tiddler links
* `tc-tiddlylink-internal` - applied to tiddler links
* `tc-tiddlylink-missing` - applied to tiddler links where the target tiddler doesn't exist
* `tc-tiddlylink-resolves` - applied to tiddler links when the target tiddler does exist

! Configuration variables

* <<.vlink tv-wikilinks>>
* <<.vlink tv-wikilink-template>>
* <<.vlink tv-wikilink-tooltip>>
* <<.vlink tv-get-export-link>>