Thursday, January 1, 2015

html - Is there a convention for distinguishing internal and external links in a website?


From a user point of view, I think it is a reasonable idea to distinguish internal and external links. By internal links, I mean links that have the same domain name than the website displaying the link, and by external links, links that goes elsewhere.



To take an example, wikipedia distinguished external links with this small icon after the link: link icon


I have the following questions: is it considered a good practice to make this distinction ? And what are the more common ways to do it ?




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