[dokuwiki] Re: Can one make a heading also a link?
- From: Luis Machuca <ryan.chappelle@xxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:37:55 -0300
Jerry Schwartz escribió:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dokuwiki-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dokuwiki-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Chris G
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:45 PM
>> To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [dokuwiki] Re: Can one make a heading also a link?
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 01:53:30PM -0300, Luis Machuca wrote:
>>> Chris G escribió:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:49:05AM +0100, Michael Klier wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:44:48AM +0000, Chris G wrote:
>>>>>> Is there some easy way of making a section heading also a link? It
>>>>>> would seem that this is a pretty normal requirement but I can't see
>>>>>> any obvious way to do it?
>>>>> No this is not possible due to how the parser works because headlines
>>>>> are
>>>>> "special" - also this has been asked and answered a gazillion of times
>> here
>>>>> on the mailinglist as well as the forum - and sursprise surprise - it's
>> even
>>>>> a faq entry:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.dokuwiki.org/faq:headerlinks
>>>>>
>>>> Oops, sorry! Doesn't actually help much though as the tips it points
>>>> to show lots of ways of changing the style of a heading but no way to
>>>> get a link in a different style.
>>>>
>>>> There is a workaround if you do it in HTML though:-
>>>>
>>>> <html><h3><a href="http://www.somewhere.com";>Heading
>> Text</a></h3></html>
>>>> Maybe this could go in the FAQ? I'm quite happy to add it if it's
>>>> thought reasonable. (It needs htmlok to be ticked of course)
>>>>
>>> That's understandable -- no links or any other sort of content in headers
>>> is
>>> *wanted behaviour*, since titles are titles, and also a god thing
>> accesibility
>>> wise.
>>>
>> Well I wanted it! :-)
>>
>>> A link in a / as a header, IMHO, essentially says: "sorry, what goes below
>>> here should go into its own page instead, but can't get myself to move it".
>>> It strongly deviates attention from the current content, and what is linked
>> in
>>> a header may not even be in sync with what the encompassing article says.
>>>
>> I agree with you that in many/most cases one doesn't want a link as a
>> header but it can be sensible sometimes.
>>
> [JS] I agree. In my particular case, I want the links to appear in the TOC;
> but they can't. This requires redundant entries:
>
> ===== Publishers =====
> ==== Arrow ====
> [[arrow]]
> ==== Bow ====
> [[bow]]
> ==== Bullet ====
> [[bullet]]
>
> And so forth. It would be a lot cleaner if I could put the links themselves
> in
> the TOC, somehow.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Schwartz
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>> In the case in point it's on a page which is a collection of
>> information about businesses and such, the headers would be links to
>> the business' own web sites and the text underneath is extra
>> information that I have collected. It feels very logical to me in
>> this case to have the header being a link. It's a very commonly used
>> approach, I found an example very quickly:- http://www.htmlhelp.com/
>>
>>> The practical way to solve the issue is, of course, not a link in a header,
>>> but a link right below a header with some indication such as "See also" or
>>> "Main article".
>> IMHO that's a bodge working around something you want to do but can't do.
>>
>>
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Wait... you say you want *links to external content* in the *document TOC*?
Now *that*'s bad design. The TOC is expected to have another kind of
functionality. Click a link, take you to a specific section in the document
itself.
There's also the structure and accessibility problems that a header link
causes. See not only "Navigation Mechanism" on the W3C Accessibility Glossary
(http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#glossary), but also Wikipedia's stance on
section headings.
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