Admin Forum:HTML links (a href)

Maybe I'm stupid (very possible). Is it impossible to add links via simple HTML code (a href...)? I wanted to do something rather complex (the intended result looks like the second row, but with a link on the external image, obviously), but the wiki refuses to render the link properly. It's not my code; it doesn't render links at all unless they're done in wikicode. A bug? A feature? Any way around it? --Tulipclaymore 15:51, March 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * a href doesn't work on Wikia (incidentally, it should be blocked, as it's a good way of filtering out spam bots that are designed to spam links) - you can make an image link to a page by adding |link=pagename to the image code. So Example.png will link to Community Central --  Random Time  16:16, March 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * I can't really do that in this case, though; the file is located on another wiki, and I want to embed it without uploading it (the "why" is complicated, but the upshot is that the eventual template that's supposed to result from that code will hopefully be easier to use and less error-prone than the normal way). 50px doesn't work, which is why I resorted to HTML in the first place. --Tulipclaymore 16:20, March 5, 2012 (UTC)