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Support forum link button adds unnecessary square brackets and vertical line.

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The post editor on this support forum has a button to insert links, giving a result [this] (two sets of square brackets, with | to divide link from text) when it seems that in order to work properly it should be like this (one set of square brackets, space to divide link from text).

The post editor on this support forum has a button to insert links, giving a result [[https://support.mozilla.org/|like this]] (two sets of square brackets, with | to divide link from text) when it seems that in order to work properly it should be [https://support.mozilla.org/ like this] (one set of square brackets, space to divide link from text).

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Hi Andy_D, Thank you for finding this, can you also post this issue in the Contributor forums so the kitsune team can take a look at it?

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That is the correct way to refer to knowledge base articles by using their title. Using a complete URL only needs one pair of brackets and a space as separator between the link and the title.

See:

Link to other articles 	Page Title 	[[Page Title]]
Link specific text to other articles 	click here 	[[Page Title|click here]]
Link specific text to anchor in the same article 	click here 	[[#w_anchor|click here]]
Link specific text to anchor in other articles 	click here 	[[Page Title#w_anchor|click here]]
External link 	http://www.mozilla.com/ 	[http://www.mozilla.com/]
External link with text 	Mozilla 	[http://www.mozilla.com/ Mozilla]