You can create both internal and external links using the [[double bracket]]
syntax. Internal links go to another tiddler, while external links go to a URL; TiddlyWiki automatically selects the correct type based on the link target. To make the link text different than the target, you place the link text first, followed by a pipe (|
) character and then the link target.
Here are some examples:
You can read about links in the [[Links]] section.
You can [[read about links|Links]] if you want to learn more about them.
If you have questions that are not related to TiddlyWiki, let me point you to [[Google|https://google.com]], [[DuckDuckGo|https://duckduckgo.com]], or [[Wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org]]. (Or, if you prefer a language other than English, try visiting https://wikipedia.org and selecting a language.)
You can read about links in the Links section.
You can read about links if you want to learn more about them.
If you have questions that are not related to TiddlyWiki, let me point you to Google, DuckDuckGo, or Wikipedia. (Or, if you prefer a language other than English, try visiting https://wikipedia.org and selecting a language.)
URLs or paths to files are automatically linked if they appear in the text of your tiddler. However, there are a handful of cases where TiddlyWiki can't automatically detect something as a URL, for instance if it's a relative path to a file on your computer (see Images and Attachments) for why you might want that. Then placing the path by itself will make it normal text, and putting it in double square brackets will try to link to a tiddler with that name. In this case, you can use the ext
syntax to force an external link.
attachments/my_image.png
That didn't work. How about [[attachments/my_image.png]]?
Nope! Here's the right way: [ext[attachments/my_image.png]]
(Note: this last link returns a 404 error, but it's the right syntax and would work if we had actually attached an image called `my_image.png` to this wiki.)
attachments/my_image.png
That didn't work. How about attachments/my_image.png?
Nope! Here's the right way: attachments/my_image.png
(Note: this last link returns a 404 error, but it's the right syntax and would work if we had actually attached an image called my_image.png
to this wiki.)
If CamelCase links are on in the control panel, words in CamelCase are automatically turned into links. If you want to prevent a CamelCase word from turning into a link, prefix it with a tilde: ~CamelCase
. See the CamelCase appendix for details.