Add a link element to an item

You add a link element to a site area or content item when you want a link to be used for a specific site area or content item.

You can only add an element to a content item if the manage elements button has been enabled in the authoring template used by the content item.

1. Open or create a site area or content item.

2. Click Manage Elements .

3. Select Link as the element type.

4. Enter a name. Do not use double-byte and non-ASCII characters.

5. Enter a display title to use as the title of the element displayed indexes and forms.

6. If you have created a text provider plug-in for a multi-locale site, you can also select the text provider and enter a key to lookup a string from the selected text provider. The text provider will display different display title for each language it has been configured for.

   The text entered in the Display Title field will then only be used if an appropriate display title is not available from the selected text provider, or if the text provider is not available.

7. Click OK. The link element is added to your form.

8. Go to the link element you created.

9. Either click Browse Content to select a content item, file resource component, image component or link component to link to, or enter a URL in the URL field. The inserted URL will be rendered relative to the URL of the site area of the currently rendered content item. Internet protocols, such as "http://" should be added at the beginning of the inserted link if an absolute URL is intended to be rendered.

10. Select a link display type:

    Option	Details
    Text	You select this to display the link as text. Enter some text or select Use title of linked item to use the title of the item being linked to as the link title.
    Image Component	You select this to display the link as an image. Click Select Image to select an image component to use as the link image.

11. Enter a description of the link or select Use description of linked item to use the description of the item being linked to as the link description.

12. Select a link target:

    Option	Details
    None	You select this to specify no target parameter.
    New Window	You select this to open the link in a new browser window.
    Parent	You select this to open the link in the parent frameset of the frame the link appears in, replacing the entire frameset.
    Self	You select this to open the link in the current frame, replacing the content in that frame.
    Top	You select this to open the link in the current browser window, replacing all frames.
    Name	You select this to open the link in a specific frame. You enter the name of the frame in the Target name field.

13. Enter additional attributes, such as style sheet classes or javascript. These are used as if entering an attribute in a "<a href=" "></a>" tag. For example:

    • To create the link tag , <a class="classname" href="http://www.ibm.com"></a> you would enter class="classname" in the Additional attributes field.

    • To create the link tag , <a name="homepage" class="classname" href="http://www.ibm.com"></a> you would enter name="homepage" class="classname" in the Additional attributes field.

14. Save the item form.

Parent topic:

Use a link element

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