Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-31305712-20170515041745/@comment-24155515-20170515072708

Are you trying to make a type of link that isn't covered by Mediawiki markup? Mediawiki has its own markup for internal links, like these:

Internal link makes Internal link

External link makes External link

Here's a list of available HTML markups on Wikia: Help:HTML The  markup (which makes links) isn't available.

Here are descriptions of the ones listed as available on that page (which I've only listed here because the page doesn't go in depth and just lists them):

(single line break (the rest of these would also have on them, I only left them on this one (and kept the markup from executing) to make it clear what the whole markup was))
 * abbr (tooltip for abbreviations, like this HTML )
 * acronym (works like abbr sort of, deprecated)
 * b (bold)
 * big (large text, deprecated)
 * blockquote (formats text within the tags into a block quote)
 * caption, table, td, th, tr (table markup pieces)
 * center (center aligned content, deprecated)
 * cite (citation)
 * code ("code", basically just rendered monospaced)
 * dd, dl, dt (look here for how it works)
 * del (marks deleted content, I think by striking it?)
 * div (multifaceted block element I'm unsure how to explain)
 * em (different italics tag (emphatic stress, might be read differently by a screen reader than i))
 * font (sets font size/color/face, deprecated)
 * h1 - h6 (headings, equivalent to the ==Section header markup== in Mediawiki (the number of equals signs correspond to the level, i.e. the example here is h2))
 * hr (horizontal line, Mediawiki markup is )
 * i (italics)
 * ins (added text, might be indicated with an underline?)
 * li, ol, ul (used in lists)
 * p (paragraph)
 * pre (preformatted text, like "code" but cooler (also this might actually be a MediaWiki parser function here on Wikia (that functions the same as the HTML counterpart) but I'm not sure))
 * q (short quote)
 * rb, rp, rt, ruby (various parts of ruby annotation, see here for 3/4 of their use)
 * s (strikethrough)
 * small (small text)
 * span (multifaceted inline element I'm unsure how to explain)
 * strike (strikethrough, deprecated)
 * strong (different bold tag (strong emphasis, might be read differently by a screen reader than b))
 * sub (subscript, like the 2 in H2O)
 * sup (superscript, like the 2 in E=MC2)
 * tt (monospaced font, sort of like code, deprecated)
 * u (underline)
 * var (italic text, intended for mathematical variables)
 * (Hidden comment)

I've bolded the ones I know have a MediaWiki markup equivalent. Here's a help page on Wikipedia that contains a lot of examples of markup in the above list.

But the TL;DR is that if you were trying to use any HTML element that's not one of the ones listed above, that's why it didn't work.