Internal Links

Joomla prefers to have internal links in the query form and XHTML encoded, so an internal link to this page would be:

 index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18&catid=9

and not:

documents/internal-links

The content gets quite easily cluttered with all different kind of internal URL. The component provides a few methods to correct these. In the components options there are settings on how you would like the links in your content:

• Use:
  
  • The query link (index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18&catid=9) 
  • The routed link (documents/internal-links)
• XHTML Encode: whether to encode the link, thus & for &
• Absolute links: whether to create absolute links. This will create absolute links for files like images and routed links. Query links will remain relative, otherwise  routing the links will fail. Unless you have SEF disabled, then all links are absolute. 

In addition:

• the Content plugin can check and fix the category ID
• the Unsef plugin provides the query link for any SEF URL

All these corrections are applied during the check phase. Therefor any changes to the settings are effective after a link is checked again.

In the Links-menu, corrected links can be found using the With internal changed filter.