embed internal link in HTML

[sunnyday09]

Hi,
May I know how I can embed wiki internal link into HTML code(actually, it is still PHP code, but the HTML section.).

Also, in html, if I want the users to open a new window after clicking the link, I just define "target" attribute in the link tag. But how can I let the user open new window after click an internal wiki link?

Actually, the "Editing Help" under "summary" input field on "Edit" page is a good example. But which file should I go for that part of code check?

Thanks!

[sunnyday09]

Solved the problem for opening new window for external link by changing the code in linker.php. But for internal link, still no luck.

Also, any guidance for putting a internal link in html?
Part of the code is:
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"document.write(\"<p>For categories, please click here for "."[[Categories | list of all categories]]"."</p>\");\n";
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Is it the correct way to embed internal link?

Many thanks!

[Michael Daly]

If you're using JavaScript after the page has loaded, then the parser will not handle the wikitext. You'll have to specify the link as a URL.

[sunnyday09]

Yes. I got the problem! Thanks!

May I know how to open a new window from an internal link?

[Michael Daly]

Look up target for links in HTML. Also, there have been a couple of questions on this on these forums recently.

[sunnyday09]

You are right!

I can simply use <a target="_blank" href="XXXX">test</a> to solve open the new window problem. But I'm a little confused. If I need to link to "Categories" page, and I have to use url instead of using wiki text. for "XXXX" part, do I have to change this url from my local url to development server url and then to production server url in different environment or there is more efficient way to put the url for the code of "XXXX"?

Thanks!

[Michael Daly]

If you use relative URLs instead of absolute, you could move from dev to prod directly.

[sunnyday09]

I guess I was asking a stupid question. I should have got the answer myself.

Thanks!

[sunnyday09]

I just realized that I had not got my original question answered completely yet.

Then come back to my original question:
How can I open new window from an internal "wikitext" link? Now I found that I could be able to open a new window if the internal link is an html link. But if it is wikitext link, how can I do that?

Thanks!

[Michael Daly]

I thought you were going to use JS to insert the link - in that case, just insert the HTML with target. Alternatively, if you use JS to process the page after all wiki processing is done and you want to have all internal links open in another page, then use JS to rewrite every URL with target.

If you're not using JS, then you'd have to write an extension to handle this, if no such extension currently exists. You should search these forums for target - I know this has been asked before and perhaps someone has posted a shortcut for this.