Tips : Creating Links

Links are how visitors get from one page to another. You'll probably put a lot of links in menus – a menu being just a list of links to other content. But you may also place links directly inside content text, or inside a block's text.

You may want links that point to a specific content item on your site, or a specific page on an outside web sites. Or you may want powerful links that pick up and return a list of multiple content items from your site's database.

There's a lot you can do. Here's a basic guide to linking:

Placing Links

Know the path

A link is a pointer to another page or node address. The first thing you need to know is the target page's address: its path (or if it's external, such as a page on another website, its URL). If you haven't done so, see Content Paths and URLs.

You're now armed with the paths you need for the links you'll create. Next:

Linking to a path or external URL

Putting a link into a menu item

Every menu item needs to specify a path; sending the visitor to that path is the purpose of a menu item. When creating or editing a menu item, you input the path into the 'Path' field.

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