Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Image Links





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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:
 * 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.

Tooltips and Links

 * Tooltips appear when you give your links names.
 * External links: if you insert only the URL without the name, no tooltip or image caption will appear.
 * Internal links: if you do not give the internal link a name, a tool tip will display but the caption will disappear.
 * If you give the internal link a name other than the page name, the name will appear instead. For example:

Try these out


 Exercises
 * Place this image [[File:Ireland Map.gif]] in your sandbox page and limit the width to 100 pixels and make it a link to an external website that is about Ireland.
 * Place this image [[File:Ireland Countryside.jpg]] in your sandbox page and limit the width to 100 pixels and make it an 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 link 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, the word link and = sign.
 * B. Space, the word link and = sign
 * 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

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