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.
Note: 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.
- Open or create a site area or content item.
- Click Manage Elements .
- Select Link as the element type.
- Enter a name. Do not use double-byte and non-ASCII characters.
- Enter a display title to use as the title of the element
displayed indexes and forms.
- 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 look
up a string from the selected text provider. The text provider displays
a different display title for each language it has been configured
for. The text entered in the Display Title field
is only used if an appropriate display title is not available from
the selected text provider, or if the text provider is not available.
- Click OK. The link element is added
to your form.
- Go to the link element you created.
- 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.
- Select a link display type:
- Text
- You select this to display the link as text.
- Use name of linked item: You select this
to use the title of the item being linked to as the link text.
- Link text: Enter the text to use as the
link text. To enter text you must unselect Use name of
linked item.
- 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.
- Enter a description of the link by selecting either:
- Use description of linked item
- You select this to use the description of the item being linked
to as the link description.
- Enter description
- You select this to enter the text to use as the link description.
To enter a description you must unselect Use description
of linked item.
- Select a link target:
- Name
- You select this to specify the name of the link target.
- New Window
- You select this to open the link in a new browser window.
- None
- Select this to specify no link target.
- 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.
- 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.
- Save the item form.