Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Image Links

Turning images into links
We have shown you, so far, how to create both external and internal links using just text. Now we will show you how to take an image and make it into either an external or an internal link.

Internal Links

 * The process is the same only we add the page name instead of the URL like so:


 * Ireland Countryside.jpg


 * Put your mouse over the image to see the "tooltip" with the name of the page name.
 * If you click on the image you will be taken to the Ireland Genealogy page.

Tooltip

 * Tooltips appear when you give your links names.
 * On external links if you insert only the URL, no tooltip will appear.
 * On internal links if you do not give the internal link a name, the name of the article will appear. If you give the internal link a name other than the page name, the name will appear instead.

Try these out
 Exercises
 * Place this [[File:Ireland Map.gif]] image in your sandbox page and limit the width to 100 pixels and make it a link to a website that is about Ireland.
 * Place this [[File:Ireland Countryside.jpg]] image in your sandbox page and limit the width to 100 pixels and make it a internal link to a favorite article in FamilySearch Wiki about Ireland.

Check your answers

 Quick Quiz
 * The separator between the URL and the name of the website in an external image links is:
 * A. Space.
 * B. Pipe.
 * C. Doesn't matter.


 * The separator between the page name and the name of the link in an internal image link is:
 * A. Pipe.
 * B. Space.
 * C. Doesn"t matter.


 * In external links, the "tooltip" only appears when you give your external links a name?
 * A. True.
 * B. False.


 * In internal links, the "tooltip" appears with the name of the page if you do not give it a different name.
 * A. True.
 * B. False.

Check your answers