--- title: Links audience: writer, designer tags: [formatting, navigation] keywords: links, hyperlinks, cross references, related links, relationship tables summary: "When creating links, you can use standard HTML or Markdown formatting. However, you can also implement an automated approach to linking that makes linking much less error-prone (meaning less chances of broken links in your output) and requiring less effort." last_updated: July 3, 2016 sidebar: mydoc_sidebar permalink: mydoc_hyperlinks.html folder: mydoc --- ## Create an external link When linking to an external site, use Markdown formatting because it's simplest: ``` [Google](http://google.com) ``` ## Linking to internal pages When linking to internal pages, you can manually link to the pages like this: ``` [Icons](mydoc_icons.html) ``` However, if you change the file name, you'll have to update all of your links.