[dokuwiki] Re: Can one make a heading also a link?
- From: Dmitry Katsubo <dma_k@xxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:17:08 +0100
Chris G wrote on 23.02.2010 18:45:
> 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.
>
> 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.
Hi Chris!
Like it was already mentioned, you can achieve this functionality by
implementing a custom plugin. The tricky thing is how to create page
TOC. You may play with the following plugin, which I use right now [1]
in my installation, but keep in mind, that it may cause unexpected bugs
in TOC and (I suppose) may impact your sidebar index menu (option
'useheading' [2] in particular may not work).
[1] http://wiki.jalakai.co.uk/dokuwiki/doku.php/tutorials/header
[2] http://www.dokuwiki.org/config:useheading
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With best regards,
Dmitry
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