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---
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title: Links and cross references
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description: Shortcodes for creating links to documents.
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categories: [content management]
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keywords: [cross references,references,anchors,urls]
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menu:
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docs:
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parent: content-management
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weight: 170
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weight: 170
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toc: true
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aliases: [/extras/crossreferences/]
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---
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The `ref` and `relref` shortcodes display the absolute and relative permalinks to a document, respectively.
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## Use of `ref` and `relref`
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The `ref` and `relref` shortcodes require a single argument: the path to a content document, with or without a file extension, with or without an anchor. Paths without a leading `/` are first resolved relative to the current page, then to the remainder of the site.
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```text
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.
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└── content
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├── about
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| ├── _index.md
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| └── credits.md
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├── pages
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| ├── document1.md
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| └── document2.md // has anchor #anchor
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├── products
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| └── index.md
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└── blog
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└── my-post.md
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```
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The pages can be referenced as follows:
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```text
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{{</* ref "document2" */>}} <-- From pages/document1.md, relative path
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{{</* ref "document2#anchor" */>}}
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{{</* ref "document2.md" */>}}
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{{</* ref "document2.md#anchor" */>}}
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{{</* ref "#anchor" */>}} <-- From pages/document2.md
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{{</* ref "/blog/my-post" */>}} <-- From anywhere, absolute path
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{{</* ref "/blog/my-post.md" */>}}
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{{</* relref "document" */>}}
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{{</* relref "document.md" */>}}
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{{</* relref "#anchor" */>}}
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{{</* relref "/blog/my-post.md" */>}}
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```
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index.md can be reference either by its path or by its containing folder without the ending `/`. \_index.md can be referenced only by its containing folder:
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```text
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{{</* ref "/about" */>}} <-- References /about/_index.md
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{{</* ref "/about/_index" */>}} <-- Raises REF_NOT_FOUND error
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{{</* ref "/about/credits.md" */>}} <-- References /about/credits.md
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{{</* ref "/products" */>}} <-- References /products/index.md
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{{</* ref "/products/index" */>}} <-- References /products/index.md
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```
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To generate a hyperlink using `ref` or `relref` in Markdown:
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```text
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[About]({{</* ref "/about" */>}} "About Us")
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```
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Hugo emits an error or warning if a document cannot be uniquely resolved. The error behavior is configurable; see below.
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### Link to another language version
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Using `ref` or `relref` without specifying a language, will make the reference resolve to the language of the current content page.
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To link to another language version of a document, use this syntax:
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```text
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{{</* relref path="document.md" lang="ja" */>}}
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```
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### Get another output format
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To link to another Output Format of a document, use this syntax:
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```text
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{{</* relref path="document.md" outputFormat="rss" */>}}
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```
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### Heading IDs
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When using Markdown document types, Hugo generates element IDs for every heading on a page. For example:
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```text
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## Reference
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```
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produces this HTML:
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```html
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<h2 id="reference">Reference</h2>
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```
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Get the permalink to a heading by appending the ID to the path when using the `ref` or `relref` shortcodes:
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```text
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{{</* ref "document.md#reference" */>}}
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{{</* relref "document.md#reference" */>}}
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```
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Generate a custom heading ID by including an attribute. For example:
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```text
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## Reference A {#foo}
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## Reference B {id="bar"}
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```
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produces this HTML:
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```html
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<h2 id="foo">Reference A</h2>
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<h2 id="bar">Reference B</h2>
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```
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Hugo will generate unique element IDs if the same heading appears more than once on a page. For example:
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```text
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## Reference
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## Reference
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## Reference
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```
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produces this HTML:
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```html
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<h2 id="reference">Reference</h2>
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<h2 id="reference-1">Reference</h2>
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<h2 id="reference-2">Reference</h2>
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```
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## Ref and RelRef Configuration
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The behavior can be configured in `hugo.toml`:
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refLinksErrorLevel ("ERROR")
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: When using `ref` or `relref` to resolve page links and a link cannot resolved, it will be logged with this log level. Valid values are `ERROR` (default) or `WARNING`. Any `ERROR` will fail the build (`exit -1`).
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refLinksNotFoundURL
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: URL to be used as a placeholder when a page reference cannot be found in `ref` or `relref`. Is used as-is.
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