Textpattern Help

Links

To make a hypertext link, put the link text in "quotation marks" followed immediately by a colon and the URL of the link.

Optional: text in (parentheses) following the link text, but before the closing quotation mark, will become a Title attribute for the link, visible as a tool tip when a cursor is above it.

Example:

"This is a link (This is a title) ":http://www.textism.com

Will become:

<a href="http://www.textism.com" title="This is a title">This is a link</a>

Which, when displayed in a browser, will look like this:

This is a link

New in Textile 2.0 is the ability to store long ugly urls outside of the text you’re working in, and reference them with aliases of your choosing.

Simply store the url anywhere in the document, such as at the end, using this syntax:

[alias (optional title)]http://url

Each referenced url must begin on a new line.

Example text:
This is a "link":bob to Bob’s website.

So long as this appears elsewhere in the document:
[bob]http://itsbob.com/index.html

...the final output will be:
This is a <a href="http://itsbob.com/index.html">link</a> to Bob’s website.

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