Template:Section link/doc

Syntax (overview)

 * , link to section of other article. → Example:
 * , link to section of other article, only displaying the section's title → Example: his
 * , for usage within the same article, leave the 2nd position empty → Example:

Single section
This template, section link, or its shortcut, slink, is used to generate a link to a certain section of a local wiki page and render an appropriate section mark (§).

Instead of: History of IBM § 1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services

...you can write:

...which is much shorter and does not require you to search for the section mark character.

Both generate:

Multiple sections
This template may generate consecutive links to several sections of the same page:

...will generate:

Suppressing page name
Sometimes the page name needs not to appear, e.g. to avoid redundancy and wordiness. For the page on which the template is used, not specifying a page name creates a section link only. The following: ...is the equivalent of: § Suppressing page name ...and renders as:

For other pages, y can be used to suppress the page name.

Comparison of displayed results:

TemplateData
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