Hi Joey, What do you think about CSS classes for links to display link with icon? You probably know that there are wikis with that feature, for example Moin Moin. Here is a piece of `common.css` file grabbed from <http://wiki.openwrt.org> site which is powered by Moin Moin wiki: a.www:before {content: url(../img/moin-www.png); margin: 0 0.2em;} a.http:before {content: url(../img/moin-www.png); margin: 0 0.2em;} a.https:before {content: url(../img/moin-www.png); margin: 0 0.2em;} a.file:before {content: url(../img/moin-ftp.png); margin: 0 0.2em;} a.ftp:before {content: url(../img/moin-ftp.png); margin: 0 0.2em;} a.nntp:before {content: url(../img/moin-news.png); margin: 0 0.2em;} a.news:before {content: url(../img/moin-news.png); margin: 0 0.2em;} a.telnet:before {content: url(../img/moin-telnet.png); margin: 0 0.2em;} a.irc:before {content: url(../img/moin-telnet.png); margin: 0 0.2em;} a.mailto:before {content: url(../img/moin-email.png); margin: 0 0.2em;} a.attachment:before {content: url(../img/moin-attach.png); margin: 0 0.2em;} a.badinterwiki:before {content: url(../img/moin-inter.png); margin: 0 0.2em;} a.interwiki:before {content: url(../img/moin-inter.png); margin: 0 0.2em;} You can see that they use a lot of CSS classes for links, but only one CSS class for external links is enough for me :) Please look at my example: \[[Foo]] -> <a href="http://www.mywiki.org/foo.html">Foo</a> \[[Bar|foo/bar]] -> <a href="http://www.mywiki.org/foo/bar.html">Bar</a> <http://www.gnu.org/> -> <a class="external" href="http://www.gnu.org/">http://www.gnu.org/</a> [GNU](http://www.gnu.org/) -> <a class="external" href="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU</a> [RMS](mailto:rms@gnu.org) -> <a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org">RMS</a> My best regards, --[[Paweł|ptecza]] > If you did not already know, you can achieve similar results using CSS3 > selectors. Eg: `a[href="http://www.foobar.com/"] { foobar: css }` or > `a[title~="Mail"] {text-decoration: none; }`. See > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-css3-selectors-20011113/> for a complete list. >> Hi Charles, >> >> Thanks for the hint! I don't know CSS3 yet :) What modern and popular >> WWW browsers do support it now? >> >>> Safari supports it. Firefoz&Co support most of it. IE6 did not, but IE7 >>> supports a fair part of CSS3, ans is said to support selectors. >>> >>> Example on how to use selectors here: http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2002/08/30/external >>> >>> I also think this should be in an external plugin, not in ikiwiki. >>> I find CSS3 support still spotty... Here are some notes on how to do this in IkiWiki with jQuery: <http://iki.u32.net/setup/External_Links> --[[sabr]] > If you need to achieve this in IkiWiki itself, I imagine you could create a > plugin which runs in the `format` phase of rendering and search/replaces > specific link patterns. This should be a fairly simple exercise in regular > expressions. > > --CharlesMauch >> I've never written plugin for ikiwiki, but I can try if it's simple job :) >> >> --[[Paweł|ptecza]] > I wouldn't mind adding a _single_ css class to ikiwiki links, but it > would have to be a class added to all internal, not all external, links. > Reason is that there are many ways for external links to get into an > ikiwiki page, including being entered as raw html. The only time ikiwiki > controls a link is when an internal link is added using a WikiLink. > > (Note that tags get their own special > [[rel_attribute|rel_attribute_for_links]] now that CSS can use.) > > --[[Joey]]