Extension:Link Attributes

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This extension is often confused with the similarly named Extension:LinkAttributes.

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File:OOjs UI icon advanced-invert.svg Link Attributes Release status: stable
Implementation	Parser function
Description	Adds support for the rel, rev and class attributes on links
Author(s)	Toby Inkster, Dennis Roczek, Sam Wilson
Latest version	1.1
MediaWiki	>= 1.35.0
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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Hooks used HtmlPageLinkRendererEnd LinkerMakeExternalLink
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This extension adds support for the rel, rev and class attributes on external links:

• rel – The relationship of the linked URL as space-separated link types.
• rev – Specified a reverse link; the opposite of the rel attribute. Deprecated for being very confusing.
• class – A space-separated list of the classes of the element. Classes allows CSS and JavaScript to select and access specific elements.

Usage

The syntax is a little unorthodox. To set the rel attribute, place one or more tokens in double-parentheses at the end of the link title. e.g.:

  [http://tobyinkster.co.uk/ My website((me home))]

The above would be converted to the following link:

  <a href="http://tobyinkster.co.uk/" rel="me home" class="external">My website</a>

To set the class attribute, the same syntax is used, but tokens which represent classes are prefixed with a dot:

  [http://tobyinkster.co.uk/ My website((me .class1 home .class2))]

Becomes:

  <a href="http://tobyinkster.co.uk/" rel="me home" class="external class1 class2">My website</a>

Similarly, prefixing with a tilde (~) sets the rev attribute.

Tokens may be prefixed by a minus sign (-) to indicate that you don't want to add the token, but remove it. For example:

  [http://tobyinkster.co.uk/ My website((me -.external home))]

Becomes:

  <a href="http://tobyinkster.co.uk/" rel="me home">My website</a>

The "nofollow" rel token is considered untouchable though.

Installation

• <translate> [[<tvar name=2>Special:ExtensionDistributor/Link_Attributes</tvar>|Download]] and move the extracted <tvar name=name>Link_Attributes</tvar> folder to your <tvar name=ext>extensions/</tvar> directory.</translate>
  <translate> Developers and code contributors should install the extension [[<tvar name=git>Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git</tvar>|from Git]] instead, using:</translate>cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/Link_Attributes
• <translate> Add the following code at the bottom of your <tvar name=1>LocalSettings.php </tvar> file:</translate>

  wfLoadExtension( 'Link_Attributes' );
  

• File:OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg <translate> Done</translate> – <translate> Navigate to <tvar name=special>Special:Version</tvar> on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.</translate>

See also

• Extension:LinkAttributes – a different syntax for adding the attributes.
• T35886