Question

Is there any way, perhaps using a plugin, to make the display of "double bracketed" links to external sites look different to links to twiki pages.

For example, I'd like a link to http://www.AndyPryke.com to look different to AndyPryke when the link is made using the [[ markup.

This would allow me to make links to long urls like http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/features/mayfield in a friendlier form like Social Text Interview but have it clear to viewers that the link is external and not to a twiki page called SocialTextInterview

The markup could be as simple as different colouring or perhaps the addition of a small icon.

If this feature isn't currently available in TWiki, then I guess this should become a FeatureRequest.

Environment

-- AndyPryke - 13 Jan 2004

Answer

I was looking at the code in TWiki.pm and it would be ideal if we could specify a DecoratorPattern to all links.

It is not clear to me if this exists, but my desire would be to add a small arrow gif to external links. I've seen this in JSPWiki for instance.

Another thought would be to associate CeeSesSesClasses with each link type and let the TWikiSkins handle the formatting externally.

-- JeffSchilling - 24 Jan 2004

And more... I see that a proposal exists for this functionality in MorePluginHooks

-- JeffSchilling - 24 Jan 2004

And some discussions on CSS is in TWikiUsingCSS

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Apr 2004