Editing Help/Images (section)

== Link behavior == <!--T:171-->
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<translate><!--T:172--> By default an image links to its file description page.</translate>
<translate><!--T:173--> The "link=" option modifies this behavior to link to another page or website, or to turn off the image's linking behavior.</translate>

<translate><!--T:174--> Alternatively, you can create a text link to a file description page or to the file itself.</translate>
<translate><!--T:204--> See <tvar name=1></tvar>.</translate>

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=== Display image, link it to another page or website === <!--T:180-->

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Use the "link=" option to link an image to another page or website:

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Clicking on the below image will take you to [[MediaWiki]]:
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 <nowiki>[[File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|50px|link=MediaWiki]]</nowiki>

[[File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|50px|link=MediaWiki]]

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Clicking on the below image will take you to ''example.com'':
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 <nowiki>[[File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|50px|link=http://example.com]]</nowiki>

[[File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|50px|link=http://example.com]]

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=== Display image, turn off link === <!--T:184-->

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Use the "link=" option with no value assigned to turn the link off entirely; the below image is not a link:
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 <nowiki>[[File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|50px|link=]]</nowiki>

[[File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|50px|link=]]

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=== Link to an image === <!--T:208-->

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Add <tvar name="colon"><code>:</code></tvar> as a prefix to the link you need to create.
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 <nowiki>[[:File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg]]</nowiki>
[[:File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg]]
 <nowiki>[[:File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|Wiki]]</nowiki>
[[:File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|Wiki]]

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=== Directly linking to an image === <!--T:242-->
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<translate><!--T:243--> The above examples link to the image's description page.</translate>
<translate><!--T:244--> To directly link to an image, the pseudo-namespace <tvar name=1><code>Media:</code></tvar> can be used on MediaWiki pages:</translate>

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">
[[Media:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg]]
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[[Media:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg]]


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====Direct links from external sites==== <!--T:245-->
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<translate><!--T:246--> Another possibility is to use the <tvar name=1>[[Special:Redirect/file]]</tvar> page (or its alias <tvar name=2>[[Special:Filepath]]</tvar>).</translate>
<translate><!--T:247--> Unlike the above example, you can link to it from external websites as well as from MediaWiki pages.</translate>

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">
[[Special:Redirect/file/Wikipedia.png]]
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<translate><!--T:248--> The parameters <code>height</code> and <code>width</code> can also be added to return a specific size of the image.</translate>
<translate><!--T:220--> The image aspect ratio is always preserved.</translate>

 <nowiki>https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Redirect/file/Wikipedia.png&width=100&height=100</nowiki>


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====Obtaining the full URL of an image==== <!--T:249-->

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To obtain the full path of an image (without going through redirects as shown above), some <tvar name=1></tvar> can be used.
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 <nowiki></nowiki>

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<translate><!--T:213--> In the event that this is used from a template where the <code>File:</code> namespace needs to be removed, <tvar name=1><code><nowiki></nowiki></code></tvar> can do so:</translate>

 <nowiki>}}</nowiki>

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