#1

I would like to have display text for internal links in mermaid diagrams. I looked at previous entries on the forum, but I didn’t see a request for this.

Thanks

#2

Do you mean aliases?

#3

I meant display text, but I wonder if aliases would also work. Hadn’t thought of that.

#4

Well, i think the point of aliases is to provide alternative display text of internal links. Do you mean to do something else?

#5

To be honest, it doesn’t make a difference in function to me if linking to a whole note. At the back end it does, which is fine - either display text or aliases would work. I don’t think aliases would work if you’re linking to a particular heading within a note).

Regardless, it seems there are other feature requests for some form of this, but with limited traction.

#6

Links to headings can also have aliases although you’d have to add them manually every time, compared to links to notes where there can be pre-assigned aliases in the frontmatter.

Links to headings will look like [[Page Name#Heading Name|Alias Here]] or [[#Heading Name|Alias]]

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#7

Yes, this is how I currently use the feature. However, what I am requesting is that this also apply in mermaid diagrams. Unless I am missing something, which is entirely possible, using display text or aliases does not work in mermaid because notation of [[ ]] is not accepted. Currently, the class internal-link does not seem to allow display text or aliases either. This is the heart of the feature request. To be able to use either display text (name or heading|display text) or alias within a mermaid diagram.

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