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This template creates a formatted external link. It formats the appearance of displayed URLs, while making them machine-readable as part of emitted microformat meta-data, inside templates such as infoboxes.

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For web-based references, please see Wikipedia:Citation templates.

Usage

• {{URL|example.com}}
  • The first parameter is parsed to decide whether it is a complete URL. If it doesn't start with a URI scheme (such as "http:", "https:", or "ftp:"), the prefix "http://" is prepended to the specified generated target URL of the link.
  • Parameter 2 ({{URL|url name|optional display text}}) is deprecated. See note above for more information and alternative templates.

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If the URL contains an equals sign, as is common in a query string, the parameter Template:Para should be used for the URL ({{URL|1=example.com}}). This applies when the value of the URL is unknown, for example, when this template is used in another template specifying the effective URL as a variable value Template:Nowiki template demo

The template attempts to handle simple cases where a URL containing an equals sign is specified without the necessary Template:Para, but it is still better practice to pass it in.

The deprecated second parameter for the displayed text, if present in legacy uses, must also be explicitly numbered if the first parameter is explicitly numbered ({{URL|1=url name|2=optional display text}}); otherwise it will override the value of the first parameter: Template:Nowiki template demo

Examples

The template displays an instructional message if there is no input: Template:Nowiki template demo

The template wraps the output in Template:Tag (see Template:Section link) and adds <wbr/> before displayed periods: Template:Nowiki template demo

The use of http://, https://, a protocol-relative URL, or a different protocol is preserved in the URL but is not shown in the link text: Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo

If the path is only a slash (/) it is not displayed in the link text: Template:Nowiki template demo

The template also adds <wbr/> before any displayed slashes (/) in the path: Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo

Upper case in the domain name is preserved in the URL, but not in the link text (upper case in the path is not changed): Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo

For a URL containing an equal sign (=), use Template:Para: Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo

The template currently supports an optional second parameter which is used as the link text, though its use is discouraged (see note): Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo

The URL may be obtained from Wikidata as shown in this example for Template:Q, where the property Template:Prop contains Template:Wikidata: Template:Nowiki template demo

Microformat

The template wraps the displayed URL with a class="url" so that it is included in any parent microformat which takes a URL parameterTemplate:Snd see our microformats project.

TemplateData

Template:TemplateData header <templatedata> { "description": "A template to display and format a URL, inside other tempates", "params": { "1": { "label": "URL", "description": "The URL to be linked", "type": "string", "required": true }, "2": { "label": "Display text", "description": "The text to be displayed instead of the URL. Deprecated", "type": "string", "required": false, "deprecated": true } } } </templatedata>

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