description: A wiki-link or Markdown link connecting pages in your space.
In SilverBullet, you can create links to pages or documents inside your space as well as to external resources, using different link formats.
[title](URL) syntax, for instance: SilverBullet community. If the URL contains a space or closing parenthesis, you can enclose the URL in angled brackets.[title](<relative specifier><link>) format. The relative specifier can be used to move up the file tree (or down, if you picture a file tree like this 🌳) relative to the page the link is on, similar to POSIX file systems /../. The link has to conform to the #Link syntax (String refs)|link syntax[<link>](<link>) syntax. Again the link has to conform to the link syntax. A alias can be added like this [<link>|This link points to <link>](<link>|This link points to <link>)The link or “string refs” has to follow some specific formatting:
* A string ref starting with ^ links to a meta page, see #Caret page links|caret page links
* The "core" (After a possible ^ and before a @ or #) of a string ref is a Names|name or Paths|path.
* The core of a string ref can also be empty, an empty path points to the current page for links, and to the index page for editor.navigate
* A string ref can end three ways:
* # followed by a string (which can also contain #). This will point to the header equal to that string. (Notably you can't link to every possible header, because e.g. ]] will restrict you inside a wikilink for example.), e.g. SilverBullet#Introduction
- @ followed by an upper or lowercase L followed by a number, optionally followed by an upper or lowercase C followed by a number (e.g. @l12c13). This will point to the corresponding line and column inside a page (both 1-based), e.g. CHANGELOG@L12c42
- @ followed by a number n. This will point to the nth character in the page (0-based), e.g. CHANGELOG@123
Meta Page are excluded from link auto complete in many contexts. However, you may still want to reference a meta page outside of a “meta context.” To make it easier to reference, you can use the caret syntax: [^Library/Std](^Library/Std). Semantically this has the same meaning as [LIbrary/Std](LIbrary/Std). The only difference is that auto complete will only complete meta pages.