how can I create a link to an image which is part of the wiki, without having it inserted in my page?
I tought this:
\[[look at this|img/lolcat.png]]
would work, but it doesn't.
Any hints? --[[jerojasro]]
Well, currently the syntax above will display the image
inline with the specified link text used as an alt attribute. Although
that does not seem to be documented anywhere.
A few places that use that (found with git grep '\[\[' | egrep 'png|gif|jpeg|jpg' |grep \| ):
- [[logo]] uses it to provide useful alt texts for the logos. (This
could easily be changed to use [[ikiwiki/directive/img]] though.)
- The
change.tmpl template uses it to display
the [[diff|wikiicons/diff.png]] with a very useful "diff" alt text.
Using [[ikiwiki/directive/img]] here would mean that the
[[plugins/recentchanges]] plugin would depend upon the img
plugin.
I do like your suggestion, it makes more sense than the current behavior.
I'm not sure the transition pain to get from here to there is worth it,
though.
More broadly, if I were writing ikiwiki now, I might choose to leave out the
auto-inlining of images altogether. In practice, it has added a certian level
of complexity to ikiwiki, with numerous plugins needing to specify
noimageinline to avoid accidentially inlining an image. And there has not
been a lot of payoff from having the auto-inlining feature implicitly
available most places. And the img directive allows much needed control over
display, so it would be better for users to not have to worry about its
lesser cousin. But the transition from here to there would be another order
of pain.
Anyway, the cheap and simple answer to your question is to use html
or markdown instead of a [[ikiwiki/wikilink]]. Ie,
[look at this](img/lolcat.jpg) . --[[Joey]]
thanks a lot, that's a quite straightforward solution. I actually wrote a
broken plugin to do that, and now I can ditch it --[[jerojasro]]
The plugin approach is not a bad idea if you want either the ability
to:
- Have things that are wikilink-aware (like [[plugins/brokenlinks]]
treat your link to the image as a wikilink.
- Use standard wikilink path stuff (and not have to worry about
a relative html link breaking if the page it's on is inlined, for
example).
I can help you bang that plugin into shape if need be. --[[Joey]]
both my plugin and your suggestion yield broken html links when inlining the page (although probably that's what is expected from your suggestion ([]() ))
I thought using the bestlink function would take care of that, but alas, it doesn't.
Get the "plugin" here, see the broken
links generated here and the source
file for that page here --[[jerojasro]]
Use this --[[Joey]]
return htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $params{"img"},
linktext => $params{text},
noimageinline => 1);
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