Internal Image External Link

[ET]

Hi,

I'm rather confused about the WikiText syntax for creating an external link with an internal image.

I have tried the following with without success.

[img[image.png]ext[tiddlywiki|http://www.tiddlywiki.com]]

[img[ext[tiddlywiki|http://www.tiddlywiki.com]|image.png]]

[ext[img[image.png]|http://www.tiddlywiki.com]]

[Jed Carty]

Sorry, you use the a html tag. I will get this right for one of these edits.

<a href='somesite.com'>[img[imgstuff]]</a>

so like this

<a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/18/image/b/format/large_web/">
[img  width=300px tooltip="""SPACE!!""" [http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-1998-18-b-small_web.jpg]]
</a> 

 

[ET]

So it's not possible using pure WikiText?

[Jed Carty]

I am pretty certain that the only other way to have external links without using html tags is to just type in the complete url without any formatting. Just typing http://tiddlywiki.com will be a link, but that isn't very useful.

Making a macro or widget like the link widget but that works for external links probably wouldn't be very difficult, but it would just be a wrapper on the a tag anyway, so I am not sure how useful it would be.

Do you think it would make a significant difference to be able to type something like

<$external-link to='http://tiddlywiki.com'>Some text or images here</$external-link>

instead of

<a href='http://tiddlywiki.com' target='_blank'>Some text or images here</a> 

?

That is a sincere question, I have gotten used to just using the html and I am not sure if it would be helpful for someone to use one over the other.

[ET]

Right, in that case I'll have to painstakingly type in the longhand form for every image link (in my case) and also must include the target='_blank'

bit otherwise opening in the same tab.

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi ET

>  I'm rather confused about the WikiText syntax for creating an external link with an internal image.

<a href="http://tiddlywiki.com" target="_blank">[img[Motovun Jack.jpg]]</a>

> Right, in that case I'll have to painstakingly type in the longhand form for every image link (in my case) and also must include the target='_blank'

bit otherwise opening in the same tab.

Not at all. You can create a custom macro that makes it easy to re-use the image link code. For example

\define imageLink(url,image)

<a href="$url$" target="_blank">[img[$image$]]</a>

\end

Then each time you need an image link:

<<imageLink "http://tiddlywiki.com" "Motovun Jack.jpg">>

Best wishes

Jeremy

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