Template:Italiclink

purpose

This template italicizes any common type of link made within wikimarkup. It will take a second placeholder parameter and use it as a pretty-print output string instead of any possibly unsightly full text url.

• It will detect ftp and url (http & https) based link arguments and branch to apropos handling code. These are still output with a trailing link marker as if formed using [ ... ] direct link formation.

• Wikilinks form similar pretty-print links using a second parameter: [[{{{1}}}|{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]]

• The strength of this template is that can take any sort of link and italicize the output.

• Use of this template over ''[[ arg1 | pretty-arg2 ]]'' inline is NOT recommended.

See also

{{Plain link}} - will similarly form cleaner external links with a second pretty-parameter,