Template:Glossary link

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Usage

The template {{glossary link}} and its variant {{glossary link internal}} ({{gli}} for short) are templates for creating structured links to particular entries in topical glossaries.

• {{Glossary link}} is a meta-template for creating templates for specific major glossary articles; it is not usually used directly in an article. Please categorize any derived, topical glossary link templates that use this meta-template into Category:Glossary link templates (this is usually done at the bottom of the template's /doc page, so that the category is not inside the template itself and it not accidentally transcluded into the articles that use the template).
• {{gli}} is usually used directly in the glossary article itself, and is not a meta-template.

The documentation on Wikipedia for this template can be used to explain how to use them for your topic's template-structured glossary. Like the {{dfn}} wrapper, and the glossary {{term}} template, it uses the <dfn> HTML element properly. (Note that {{glossary link internal}} necessarily does not use it; <dfn> should only be used once per term on a single page, at the defining appearance of it, and is used by {{term}} inside the glossary.)

{{Glossary link}} creates a normal blue link. To prevent the "sea of blue" effect, {{Glossary link internal}} uses the light dashed underline style that has become a de facto Web standard for definitional markup.

Tech detail: By using an internal <span>...</span> with its own independent title attribute for a tool tip, it sets this up in a way that does not violate the very geeky and backasswards HTML5 specs on the handing of the title attribute of <dfn>, which is the exact term defined, not its definition.

See also

• {{glossary}}, {{glossary end}}, {{term}}, and {{defn}}, the glossary structure templates
• {{dfn}} the more general <dfn> template
• {{glossary term}}, for adding a flush-right box containing a link to a term in the BattleTechWiki:Glossary
• BattleTechWiki:Manual of Style/Glossaries

Notes

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