[dokuwiki] Re: Can one make a heading also a link?

  • From: Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:52:38 +0000

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 05:45:20PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> 
> > 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/
> 
Hey, not to mention that DokuWiki does it by making the title of all
pages a link to the root of the wiki!  OK, not quite a heading but the
principle is the same.

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Chris Green

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