Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Links
Links are more important than you might think. Links enable you to connect to
content from anywhere within Confluence, or from other websites or applications.
It is possible to link to the following content:
• Pages, from within or outside Confluence
• Blog posts
• Pages that don't exist yet, but that you want to create at a later stage
• Attachments, such as images and documents
• User profiles or personal spaces
• A section of a page, using an anchor
Linking to Confluence pages
Links to pages can be created using the following methods:
•
Autocomplete
: To link to Confluence pages
•
The Insert Link dialog
: To link to both Confluence and web pages
•
Cutting and pasting a link into the editor
: To link to both Confluence
and web pages
Using Autocomplete
You can use Autocomplete to create a link to any page in Confluence, if you know
the name of the page you want to link to.
Start your link by typing
[
to see a list of suggestions. Continue with the name of
the page to search for the page you want to link to.
Using the Insert Link dialog
You can use the Insert Link dialog to create a link to a page. Perform
the following steps:
1.
Open a page in Edit mode and place your cursor at the location where you
want to insert a link. You can also highlight the text you want linked.
2.
Choose
Link
in the editor toolbar or press
Ctrl
+
K
. The
Insert Link
dialog
will appear.
