X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/bb4a121222436473f3136064ba89d31995e40691..84f606b6fe5a9252a1cc515b083856e3b9a3c455:/doc/forum/Sidebar_with_links__63__.mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/Sidebar_with_links__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/Sidebar_with_links__63__.mdwn index c3252062a..790ee85a2 100644 --- a/doc/forum/Sidebar_with_links__63__.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/Sidebar_with_links__63__.mdwn @@ -26,6 +26,16 @@ This is the relevant part of the resulting html file `template/sidebar.html`: Note that the `` link has disappeared, and that `[External link](http://google.com/)` has been copied literally instead of being converted to a link, as I expected. +> Templates aren't Markdown page. [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]] only are expanded. --[[Jogo]] + +>> Thanks for the help Jogo. Looking at the [[templates]] page, it says that +"...you can include WikiLinks and all other forms of wiki markup in the template." I read this +to mean that a template may indeed include Markdown. Am I wrong in my interpratation? --[[buo]] + +>> I discovered that if I eliminate all html from my sidebar.mdwn template, the links are +rendered properly. It seems that the mix of Markdown and html is confusing some part of +Ikiwiki. --[[buo]] + Worse, this is the relevant part of the html file of the page that includes the template:
@@ -39,3 +49,10 @@ Worse, this is the relevant part of the html file of the page that includes the Note that the `Existing internal link` is no longer a link. It is only text. What am I doing wrong? Any help or pointers will be appreciated. --[[buo]] + +----- + +I think I have figured this out. I thought the template was filled and then +processed to convert Markdown to html. Instead, the text in each variable is +processed and then the template is filled. I somehow misunderstood the +[[templates]] page. -- [[buo]]