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====== Links ======

If a link in a wiki is nothing more or less than any other link on any other HTML page on the web, the linking system within a wiki, and especially [[DokuWiki]], is quite an important feature.

You can create several type of links within [[dokuwiki]], the [[wiki:syntax#Links]] section of the syntax page will give you an example of it. However, here we will distinguish two types of links, the [[#internal link]] and the [[#external link]].

===== Link syntax =====

The link syntax is explained within the syntax [[wiki:syntax#Links]] section. The page to pages is explained at [[pagename]] and [[namespaces]].

===== Link types =====

==== Internal link ====

An internal link is a link to a page that is within your own DokuWiki installation. For example, this is an internal [[link]]. Creating such a link will of course create an HTML link to the linked page, however it will also inform the linked page that some other page is linking to it. This feature is called [[backlink]]. A page that has no backlink is called an [[backlink#orphan]].

=== Section link ===

Inside a wiki, the links can be made not only on a [[page]] but also on [[page#sections]]. Look at [[wiki:syntax#Internal]] to find out how this is done.

=== Existing vs non-existing pages ===

When links are edited, they are checked to see if the linked page exist or not. If the page doesn't exist, the link is given a specific style, ie [[:red and underlined]]  in the default template (see also [[CSS]]).

==== External link ====

External links have no real extra functions as the sites they link to are external.

==== Interwiki links ====

see [[interwiki]]