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title: "Perspective - Link"
description: "The Link component allows users to create a hyperlink that points to a destination such as a page, view, resource, or mount path that they can quickly navigate to."
---

# Perspective - Link

> The Link component allows users to create a hyperlink that points to a destination such as a page, view, resource, or mount path that they can quickly navigate to.

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## Description

The Link component allows users to create a hyperlink that points to a destination such as a page, view, resource, or mount path that they can quickly navigate to. Links are easily identifiable because they typically have a different color font then the rest of the content, and an underscore when you hover over them. To configure a link, enter the URL for the destination, and the name of the link in the 'text' property.

## Properties

Most Properties have binding options. For more information on Bindings, see [Types of Bindings in Perspective](ignition-modules/perspective/working-with-perspective-components/bindings-in-perspective/bindings-in-perspective.md).
This section only documents the Props Category of properties. The other Categories are described on the [Perspective Component Properties](ignition-modules/perspective/working-with-perspective-components/perspective-component-properties.md) page.

| Name   | Description         | Property Type |
| ------ | ------------- | ------------- |
| url    | A URL, URL fragment, or a Page URL given to a Page. If the target is a Page, its Page URL can be found in the Page Configuration settings of the project. See [Page URLs](../../../../../ignition-modules/perspective/pages-in-perspective.md#page-urls).                                                   | value: string |
| text   | Text to display in the link.   | value: string |
| target | Specifies where to display the linked URL. Options are:  **self** for the current tab/context **tab** or 'blank' for a new tab **parent** for the parent frame tab/context **top** for the full body of the windowOtherwise, supports standard w3c values for anchor link target attributes.  | value: string |
| style  | Sets a style for this component. Full menu of [style options](appendix/reference-pages/style-reference.md) is available for text, background, margin and padding, border, shape and miscellaneous. You can also specify a [style class](ignition-modules/perspective/styles/style-classes/style-classes.md). | object        |

## Component Events

The [Perspective Event Types Reference](appendix/reference-pages/perspective-event-types-reference.md) page describes all the possible component event types for Perspective components. Not all component events support each Perspective component. The [Component Events and Actions](ignition-modules/perspective/working-with-perspective-components/component-events-and-actions.md) page shows how to configure events and actions on a Perspective component. Component scripting is handled separately and can be accessed from the Component menubar or by right clicking on the component.