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If the target of a link is the same as the page on which it appears (a self-link), it is displayed in bold font, as with: Help:Link. Yes, its wiki code is actually [[Help: Link]]. But it is not in the usual link colour and does not react like a link when clicked or when the mouse pointer passes over it.
You can also insert them by clicking the icon. If you want to link to an article, but display some other text for the link, you can use a pipe | divider (⇧ Shift+\): [[target page|display text]] You can also link to a specific section of a page using a hash #: [[Target page#Target section|display text]] Here are some examples:
When the user activates the link (e.g., by clicking on it with the mouse) the browser displays the link's target. If the target is not an HTML file, depending on the file type and on the browser and its plugins, another program may be activated to open the file. The HTML code contains some or all of the five main characteristics of a link:
Wikipedia has categories of articles; for example, "Phrases". Adding the wikitext [[Category:Phrases]] to an article will add that article to the category "Phrases". (This will not create any visible addition to the body text of the article.) If you instead want to create a visible link to a category, add a colon in front of the word "Category".
Use the link button on the enhanced editing toolbar to encode the link; this tool will add the bracket markup and the linked text, which may not always be desirable. Or manually encode the URL by replacing these characters:
You can "deep link" to a section of an article (or other Wikipedia page), using a hash character (#), then the section's title, with underscore characters (_) replacing spaces.
When editing a page, hyperlinks to other pages within Wikipedia (or other Wikimedia projects) are normally made as wikilinks or interwikilinks, using the [[...]] syntax described at Help:Link. However if you want to link to an outside website, or to certain specially generated Wikimedia pages (such as a past version of an article), it is ...
The phrase "academic search engines" is the anchor text in the hyperlink that the cursor is pointing to. The anchor text, link label, or link text is the visible, clickable text in an HTML hyperlink. The term "anchor" was used in older versions of the HTML specification [1] for what is currently referred to as the "a element", or <a>. [2]