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Overview

Within the content  on your Drupal 8 site you can add links to pages and documents on your site, or to pages on other sites.

This works very similarly to our Drupal 7 sites.

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Steps

1) Type and select your text

First, select the text you want to be linked and click on the "Link" icon, which looks like a chain.

2) Add an internal or external link to a page, a site, or a document

Now we can add a link to another page on our site, to a pdf or doc, and/or to a page on someone else's site.

If you want to link to a page on your own site (an internal link), follow these instructions to get the url of the page to which you want to link. 

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Now save your content and test the link.

Linking to a PDF or another doc

From the Link prompt, select "Open File Browser."

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Save the link and your page, and test your link.

Linking to a page on another website

In another window or tab, go to the page you want to link to. In this example, I want to link to UGA's Graduate School site.

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Save your Link, the Page, and test your link. 

Save your link and

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test it

If you haven't done so already, Save the link, your page, and test the new link to be sure it works. The example below is where I made a link to the Directory, but you should test any link you add, internal, external or to a PDF.

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