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Auto links, inline links, and link references

Auto links, inline links, and link references - Markdown Tutorial

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Auto links, inline links, and link references

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- [Instructor] Links are an essential component to building any sort of document. The format for links in markdown is pretty simple, but sometimes can be hard to remember, and there's a couple of different variations. There are three formats for links. The first one is the easiest to remember, and it's just automatic links. You can see that I created a section here with some links as well as some text that the links would go in. In some applications, link that you type in will automatically become clickable just by starting them with this http colon slash slash text. You can see that that's not happening here in codepen, but if I pull this up in one of my favorite editors, Obsidian, you can see that by simply typing the link, it makes it clickable and also automatically underscored in a different format. That's pretty common in a lot of editors. However, that standard is not global. You can, however, wrap the link with angle brackets and they will be converted into clickable objects…

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