Template:Section link

Template documentation

Uses Lua:

Module:Section link

Usage

Single section

This template is used to generate a link to a certain section of a local wiki page and render an appropriate section mark (§).

Instead of:

[[Download#What next?|Download § What next?]]

...you can write:

{{Section link|Download|What next?}}

...which is much shorter and does not require you to search for the section mark character.

Both generate:

Download § What next?

Multiple sections

This template may generate consecutive links to several sections of the same page:

{{Section link|Download|Download from Git instead|What next?}}

...will generate:

Download §§ Download from Git instead and What next?

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|§ Suppressing page name]]

...and renders as:

§ Suppressing page name

For other pages, |nopage=1 can be used to suppress the page name.

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Section link

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[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Page name	`1`	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 name	suggested
Section name 1	`2`	Name of the (first) section to which the link must be created. This parameter is mandatory.	String	required
Section name 2	`3`	This template can link to additional sections within one page. You can supply another section name in this field.	String	optional
Section name 3	`4`	This template can link to additional sections within one page. You can supply another section name in this field.	String	optional
Section name 4	`5`	This template can link to additional sections within one page. You can supply another section name in this field.	String	optional
Suppress page name?	`nopage`	If set to a truthy value, suppresses the page name. Default 0 Auto value `1`	Boolean	optional