Inserting hyperlinks

A hyperlink (link) is a reference either to a specific element in the same document or an external source (URL).

In Dr.Explain you can create hyperlinks from your content to an external URL or to a topic in your Dr.Explain project. If you want to insert a link to a specific paragraph in a topic, user anchors. Dr.Explain automatically tracks broken links and shows warnings.

To insert a hyperlink, select text (or image) in the editor and click

button in the editor toolbar or use Ctrl+K shortcut.

The following dialog window will appear:

To edit an existing link, click it in the editor. The same dialog will be displayed.

Link text

Here you can edit the text of the link. If you selected an image or several paragraphs, this field will be read-only.

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URL address

Check this option to link the selected text to an external URL, then type this URL in the text field (e.g.: https://www.drexplain.com).

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Internal link

Check this option to link the selected text to an existing topic in the project.

	If you add a link to a topic that is excluded from export, this link will turn into plain text during export.

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Anchor

After you selected a topic from the topic tree, you can select a control or an anchor in that topic. When user clicks the link, they'll open the linked topic and it will automatically scroll down to the place of that control or anchor.

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Open link in new window

Select this checkbox if you want the link to open in a new browser window. When exporting to CHM, external URLs are always opened in a new browser window.

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