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If you want to link to an article, but display some other text for the link, you can use a pipe | divider (⇧ Shift+\): [[target page|display text]] You can also link to a specific section of a page using a hash #: [[Target page#Target section|display text]] Here are some examples: [[link]] displays as link
Permalinks are usually denoted by text link (i.e. "Permalink" or "Link to this Entry"), but sometimes a symbol may be used. The most common symbol used is the hash sign, or #. However, certain websites employ their own symbol to represent a permalink such as an asterisk , a dash, a pilcrow (¶), a section sign (§), or a unique icon.
For each link the page in which it is found is listed, along with the exact target URL of the link on that page. The results are ordered alphabetically by target URL. (For very large or specialized external link searches, one may also use SQL queries against the externallinks table at Quarry .)
In web development, a postback is the exchange of information between servers to report a user's action on a website, network, or app. Technically speaking, a postback is an HTTP POST to the same page that the form is on. In other words, the contents of the form are POSTed back to the same URL as the form. [1]
When visiting a web page, the referrer or referring page is the URL of the previous web page from which a link was followed. More generally, a referrer is the URL of a previous item which led to this request. For example, the referrer for an image is generally the HTML page on which it is to be displayed.
Diagram of a double POST problem encountered in user agents. Diagram of the double POST problem above being solved by PRG. Post/Redirect/Get (PRG) is a web development design pattern that lets the page shown after a form submission be reloaded, shared, or bookmarked without ill effects, such as submitting the form another time.
If a page attracts many links or inappropriate links, a note in the external links section such as {{subst:no more links}} may discourage the addition of links. If a new or unregistered user persists in adding an inappropriate link to one or more pages, please consider leaving a message for User:XLinkBot .
A link to a section of the same article, even from the same section, does not produce bold text and works as a normal link. For example: [[Help: Self link # Self-link to a section]] → Help:Self link#Self-link to a section. Such links should usually be written without the page name: [[# Self-link to a section]] → #Self-link to a section