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(!url)

Reference to external links.

Type & position: placeholder, main part

Syntax: (!url [<text>] [<link>] <[<target>] [<class>]>)

Description:

Use this command to create (external) links. In contrary to (!xlink), this command always creates a link to a URL. <link> can be empty and will then be replaced by the content of <text>. So you don't have to enter the URL twice when you want to show it as the link description.

When the URL contains a tilde, it does not have to be protected with an exclamation mark in the (!url) command.

<target> defines a target where the URL should be opened in. In Frames layouts, these can be other frames, or use the usual targets:

_blank	opens the link in a new window
_self	opens the link in the current window
_parent	leaves the current frameset in nested framesets
_top	leaves all nested framesets

Using <class>, you can define the name of a CSS class, e.g. to show links to third-party websites in another style than links inside the current website.

Exists since: Release 6 Patchlevel 12
<target> + <class> since v7.02, currently only supporting HTML, HTML-Help, and Apple Help Book (HTML)

See also: (!link), (!plink), (!xlink), !no_xlinks, Links

Example:

Before:

(!url [BugTracker of the UDO website] [http://bugs.udo-open-source.org/]) |
(!url [Ulf Dunkel] [http://www.ulf-dunkel.de/]) |
(!url [http://www.google.com/] []) |
(!url [Write an email][mailto:someone@somewhere.net][][email]) |
(!url [UDO guide] [http://man.udo-open-source.org/en/] [_blank] [elink])

Afterwards:

BugTracker of the UDO website| Ulf Dunkel | http://www.google.com/ | Write an email | UDO guide