Template talk:Link one way

Ugly arrow[edit]

If anyone knows how to get rid of the ugly arrow (denoting the external link) I would be very grateful. I mean the last character on this line: Template:Low

Oosoom ^{Talk to me} 08:53, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can you hide the external link arrow? Suggestions transcribed from the Village Pump 10 September 2006

When you make an external link with single square brackets you get an arrow/square symbol after the piped name, like this link to a page. Is there a way of suppressing this symbol?

My aim is to make one-way links to internal Wikipedia articles in a series box by using the external link mechanism (unless anyone can tell me how to use ordinary double square bracket links which do not cause an entry in the what links here of the target page). This may seem a perverse thing to attempt. What I am trying to achieve is a compromise in a potentally huge series box (which I am not promoting myself) which makes quality checking of real back-links in article body-text impossible. See discussion here. Any help or comments would be appeciated. Thanks. Oosoom ^{Talk to me} 15:30, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, <span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion">[linky]</span>, like this, alternately [[w:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)|]] like this: Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). --Interiot 15:33, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Very may thanks. A perfect and rapid answer. Oosoom ^{Talk to me}

I think you could keep the code simpler by adding the class to an existing element, such as the navbox table, as below (multiple classes are separated by a space).

{| class="toccolours plainlinks nourlexpansion"

—Michael Z. 2006-09-10 16:54 Z

or you could add in your monobook.css:

a.external {background: none;}

GeorgeMoney (talk) 17:35, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have implemented the first technique of <span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion">[linky]</span>. Many thanks for your replies. Oosoom ^{Talk to me} 08:18, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]