[Mediawiki-l] making an image a link to an external page.

[ralf-buero at kruedewagen.de]

I have also tried to link from an internal image to an external page. 
Although the Mediawiki Help pages describe how to do that, it was not 
working for me.

However, I ended up in linking from an external image. This works for 
example:
[http://www.mozilla-europe.org/de/ 
http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/110x32/get.gif]


On Friday 30 December 2005 01:59, Fenton Travers wrote:
> Okay, in plain old html I'd make an image a link to another page by
> going:
>
> <a href="www.yahoo.com"><img src="myYahooLogo.gif"></a>
>
> Reading the mediawiki help and trying to figure out how to do this
> within the wiki...my god...I'm sorry but it seems horribly complex
> for a relatively easy concept.  Is it really true that I have to
> make a redirect at the image page?
>
> So what I want to do is upload an image and then make that image
> link to an external website, like perhaps:
>
> [http://gmail.google.com/gmail [[Image:GmailIcon.jpg]]]
>
> I'm hoping that there is a reasonably easy way to do this
> reasonably common thing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> fenton
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