In many links, noticeable Wikipedia but other places too, is something that looks like two tiny overlapping arrows, one pointing upper right and the other pointing lower left. [Could be two triangles.]I cannot find what this is called. I cannot copy/past it. I cannot find a graphic of it. Is this HTML, UNICODE, what? What is it called?
Give us one of the links which have them.
It’s called the nofollow icon. I don’t know what character or representation Wikipedia uses.
It’s the CSS external link icon.
Do you mean the “external link” mark? It shows the link goes to a pagew outside Wikipedia.
You can see it in the referencessection of any long article.
Are you talking about the “external link” symbol?To indicate the link leaves the site you’re on.
OK, that’s interesting - until now, I saw that as two arrows pointing in opposite directions, and intepreted it as a version of this, but it’s clearly the external link icon. :smack:
Thanks
If it’s the “external link” icon you’re talking about, I see it as a little square box with an arrow sticking out of the upper right corner of it.
You can find the icon by itself here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/skins/Vector/images/external-link-ltr-icon.png
(It’s a little 12x12 pixel image.)
I don’t think the icon has anything to do with CSS (other than CSS being used to display it). The icon is just one that Wikipedia (or maybe the underlying software, MediaWiki) has chosen to represent external links. If you made your own website using CSS, it wouldn’t automatically use those icons for external links.