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{{wikipedia|page name}}
{{wikipedia|page name}}
{{documentation subpage}}
{{documentation subpage}}
{{Redirect|Template:Slink|the template that links to search results|Template:Search link}}
{{template shortcuts|seclink|slink|§l}}
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{{lua|Module:Section link}}
{{lua|Module:Section link}}
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== Usage ==
== Usage ==
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=== Syntax (overview) ===
=== Syntax (overview) ===
* <code><nowiki>{{section link|Article|Section}}</nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki>{{section link|Article#Section}}</nowiki></code>, link to section of other article. → Example: {{section link|Albert Einstein|Scientific career}}
* <code><nowiki>{{section link|Article|Section}}</nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki>{{section link|Article#Section}}</nowiki></code>, link to section of other article. → Example:  
* <code><nowiki>{{section link|Article|Section|nopage=y}}</nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki>{{section link|Article#Section|nopage=y}}</nowiki></code>, link to section of other article, only displaying the section's title → Example: {{section link|Albert Einstein|Scientific career|nopage=y}}
* <code><nowiki>{{section link|Article|Section|nopage=y}}</nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki>{{section link|Article#Section|nopage=y}}</nowiki></code>, link to section of other article, only displaying the section's title → Example:  
* <code><nowiki>{{section link||Section}}</nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki>{{section link|#Section}}</nowiki></code>, for usage within the same page, supply an empty first parameter → Example: {{section link||Scientific career}}
* <code><nowiki>{{section link||Section}}</nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki>{{section link|#Section}}</nowiki></code>, for usage within the same page, supply an empty first parameter → Example: {{section link||Scientific career}}


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Instead of:
Instead of:


<code><nowiki>[[Albert Einstein#Scientific career]]</nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki>Albert Einstein#Scientific career</nowiki></code>


Albert Einstein#Scientific career
Albert Einstein#Scientific career
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<code><nowiki>{{section link|Albert Einstein|Scientific career}}</nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki>{{section link|Albert Einstein|Scientific career}}</nowiki></code>
{{section link|Albert Einstein|Scientific career}}


...or
...or


<code><nowiki>{{section link|Albert Einstein#Scientific career}}</nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki>{{section link|Albert Einstein#Scientific career}}</nowiki></code>
{{section link|Albert Einstein#Scientific career}}


=== Multiple sections ===
=== Multiple sections ===
This template may generate consecutive links to several sections of the same page. You can write:
This template may generate consecutive links to several sections of the same page. You can write:
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">{{section link|History of IBM|1880s–1924: The origin of IBM|1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services|1993–present: IBM's near disaster and rebirth}}</syntaxhighlight>
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight>
:{{section link|History of IBM|1880s–1924: The origin of IBM|1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services|1993–present: IBM's near disaster and rebirth}}
:


...or:
...or:


<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">{{section link|History of IBM#1880s–1924: The origin of IBM|1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services|1993–present: IBM's near disaster and rebirth}}</syntaxhighlight>
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight>
:{{section link|History of IBM#1880s–1924: The origin of IBM|1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services|1993–present: IBM's near disaster and rebirth}}
:


===Suppressing page name===
===Suppressing page name===
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Comparison of displayed results:
Comparison of displayed results:
*<code><nowiki>{{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations}}</nowiki></code> → {{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations}}
*<code><nowiki>{{section link||Quotations}}</nowiki></code> → {{section link||Quotations}}
*<code><nowiki>{{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations|nopage=y}}</nowiki></code> → {{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations|nopage=y}}
*<code><nowiki>{{section link||Quotations|nopage=y}}</nowiki></code> → {{section link||Quotations|nopage=y}}
*<code><nowiki>{{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations|Quotation marks|Commas}}</nowiki></code> → {{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations|Quotation marks|Commas}}
*<code><nowiki>{{section link||Quotations|Quotation marks|Commas}}</nowiki></code> → {{section link||Quotations|Quotation marks|Commas}}
*<code><nowiki>{{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations|Quotation marks|Commas|nopage=y}}</nowiki></code> → {{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations|Quotation marks|Commas|nopage=y}}
*<code><nowiki>{{section link||Quotations|Quotation marks|Commas|nopage=y}}</nowiki></code> → {{section link||Quotations|Quotation marks|Commas|nopage=y}}


=== Styling page name ===
=== Styling page name ===
For titles of films and short stories, always present the core part of the page's name (without any parenthetic disambiguation) in italics, quotation marks, or some other markup (per MOS:TITLES).  The {{para|display}} parameter can be used for this purpose:
For titles of films and short stories, always present the core part of the page's name (without any parenthetic disambiguation) in italics, quotation marks, or some other markup (per MOS:TITLES).  The {{para|display}} parameter can be used for this purpose:
*<code><nowiki>{{section link|The Last Temptation of Christ (film)|General controversy|display=''The Last Temptation of Christ'' (film)}}</nowiki></code> → {{section link|The Last Temptation of Christ (film)|General controversy|display=''The Last Temptation of Christ'' (film)}}
 


=== Underscores ===
=== Underscores ===
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:<code><nowiki>Albert_Einstein#Scientific_career</nowiki></code>
:<code><nowiki>Albert_Einstein#Scientific_career</nowiki></code>
This template automatically replaces the underscores with space characters:
This template automatically replaces the underscores with space characters:
:<code><nowiki>{{section link|Albert_Einstein#Scientific_career}}</nowiki></code> → {{section link|Albert_Einstein#Scientific_career}}
:<code><nowiki>{{section link|Albert_Einstein#Scientific_career}}</nowiki></code> →  
There are articles that have underscores (see {{cl|Articles with underscores in the title}}).  To retain the underscores in the rendered output, use {{para|keep-underscores|yes}}:
There are articles that have underscores (see {{cl|Articles with underscores in the title}}).  To retain the underscores in the rendered output, use {{para|keep-underscores|yes}}:
::article and section copied from browser address bar:
 
:::<code>Dual_EC_DRBG#Timeline_of_Dual_EC_DRBG</code>
::manual removal of extraneous underscores:
:::<code>Dual_EC_DRBG#Timeline of Dual_EC_DRBG</code>
::::<code><nowiki>{{section link|Dual_EC_DRBG#Timeline of Dual_EC_DRBG|keep-underscores=yes}}</nowiki></code> → {{section link|Dual_EC_DRBG#Timeline of Dual_EC_DRBG|keep-underscores=yes}}


==TemplateData==
==TemplateData==
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==See also==
*{{unichar|00A7|SECTION SIGN|nlink=Section sign}}
*{{tl|Anchor}}
*{{tl|Article link}}{{snd}}for linking to a mainspace section from its talk page
*{{tl|Multi-section link}}{{snd}}for linking to a section listing nested section names
*{{tl|Pslink}}{{snd}}for linking to a section without displaying the section sign (§)


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Latest revision as of 10:24, 19 April 2025

This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors).

Usage

This template is appropriate for use in hatnotes and See also sections, or to reference sections within the same article. When using in article body text, consider whether an overt link to a specific section in another article may be confusing to readers who cannot follow links, such as those viewing a printed version of the material (see WP:PRINTWORTHY), or a version republished without links (see WP:LINKSTYLE).

Syntax (overview)

  • {{section link|Article|Section}} or {{section link|Article#Section}}, link to section of other article. → Example:
  • {{section link|Article|Section|nopage=y}} or {{section link|Article#Section|nopage=y}}, link to section of other article, only displaying the section's title → Example:
  • {{section link||Section}} or {{section link|#Section}}, for usage within the same page, supply an empty first parameter → Example: § Scientific career

Single section

This template, {{section link}}, or its shortcut, {{slink}}, is used to generate a link to a certain section of a local wiki page and render an appropriate section mark (§).

Instead of:

Albert Einstein#Scientific career

Albert Einstein#Scientific career

...you can write:

{{section link|Albert Einstein|Scientific career}}

...or

{{section link|Albert Einstein#Scientific career}}

Multiple sections

This template may generate consecutive links to several sections of the same page. You can write:

...or:

Suppressing page name

Sometimes the page name needs not to appear (e.g. to avoid redundancy and wordiness). For the page on which the template is used, not specifying a page name creates a section link only. The following:

{{Section link||Suppressing page name}}

...is the equivalent of:

[[#Suppressing page name|§&nbsp;Suppressing page name]]

...and renders as:

§ Suppressing page name

Use |nopage=y for the same visual effect.

When discussing an article from its talk page, {{Article link}}—or its alias, {{alink}}—is preferable to the longer {{Section link|{{ARTICLEPAGENAME}}|Section|nopage=y}}.

Comparison of displayed results:

Styling page name

For titles of films and short stories, always present the core part of the page's name (without any parenthetic disambiguation) in italics, quotation marks, or some other markup (per MOS:TITLES). The |display= parameter can be used for this purpose:


Underscores

It is common practice to copy article and section name from the browser's address bar. When doing that, the article and section names may contain underscores:

Albert_Einstein#Scientific_career

This template automatically replaces the underscores with space characters:

{{section link|Albert_Einstein#Scientific_career}}

There are articles that have underscores (see Category:Articles with underscores in the title). To retain the underscores in the rendered output, use |keep-underscores=yes:


TemplateData

This template is used to generate a link to a certain section of a local wiki page and render an appropriate section mark (§). This template may generate consecutive links to several sections of the same page.

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Page name1

Name of the page to which the link must be created. Leave empty to link to the current page. Doing so causes no page name to appear.

Page namesuggested
Section name 12

Name of the (first) section to which the link must be created. This parameter is mandatory.

Stringrequired
Section name 23

This template can link to additional sections within one page. You can supply another section name in this field.

Stringoptional
Section name 34

This template can link to additional sections within one page. You can supply another section name in this field.

Stringoptional
Section name 45

This template can link to additional sections within one page. You can supply another section name in this field.

Stringoptional
Hide page namenopage

If set to "yes", "y" or "true", hides the page name (only section names are displayed).

Booleanoptional
Keep underscoreskeep-underscores

If set to "yes", "y" or "true", doesn't replace underscores with spaces in the page name and section names.

Booleanoptional
Displayed page namedisplay

If the page name must be displayed differently (e.g. in italics), enter it here.

Stringoptional
Permanent linkpermalink

Revision ID, for a permanent link to the section (only works with one section link)

Numberoptional