Template:Plain link/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Plain link.
It contains usage information, categories and other informational content that is best arranged so that it is not part of the original template page, such as in many cases, examples of how to use the template in question. Documentation subpages were developed to reduce server demands, or to protect the code version of widely used templates.

Purpose

• Create a 'Pretty-Print' external url link inside text.

• This template will allow you to create a local or interwiki link (such as a link to the history of a page) on a page without having the [" "] follow the link.

• This can be used, for example, when internal or interwiki links appear as external links.
• See Help:URL#URLs on_other Wikimedia projects for more information.

Caution

You can use [MW magicword] to generate URLs to Wikipedia pages.

Examples

• {{Plain link|http://www.google.co.uk|Google}} gives Google

Note that if your url or link title contains an equals sign = you must use named parameters:

• {{ Plainlink | url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Equals_sign&oldid=282228764 | name="this edit" }} gives "this edit"