[dokuwiki] Re: Can one make a heading also a link?
- From: Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:39:41 +0000
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:29:07PM -0500, Jerry Schwartz wrote:
>
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> >Behalf Of Chris G
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> >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.
>
OK, I'm persuaded that I'm not the only one who would like something
along these lines. I'll go and put my thinking hat on and see if I
can come up with a plugin that fulfils some of our requirements.
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