Published topic with a link to itself in the forum?

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@lejeczek

Making such a link manually in the post itself, only to have it in published page, does not make sense I think for such thing will loop onto itself, right?

A published page “has” two links.

A /pub/ that links to the standalone page:

A /t/ that links to the topic:

Now, there’s a loop in the topic, as you said.

A way to prevent this would be using this:

Customize posts' contents with your own styles

Requirements To be able to use these tips and tricks, you need to be an administrator of either a self-hosted Discourse instance or a Discourse-hosted plan higher than Basic. Introduction Discourse supports several methods to format and customize a post’s contents. You can find the list here: But sometimes, you’ll want something more specific, for example, a link that looks like a button. [Green button] This is the kind of modification we’ll learn here. The logic I…

For instance, write this in your topic/published page:

[wrap=topic-link]Link to topic: https://discourse.canapin.dev/t/published-page-with-own-topic-link/244[/wrap]

Content 🧑‍💻

In your CSS, write:

article [data-wrap="topic-link"] {
  display: none;
}

Now, here’s what the published page and topics look like:

The only issue is that there’s a margin-top on the first visible content in the topic because of this Discourse’s default rule:

.cooked>*:first-child, .d-editor-preview>*:first-child {
    margin-top: 0;
}

The first element, while hidden, still is the first element detected in the CSS. This can be circumvented, of course, but it will depend on how you organize your content. The problem won’t occur if your topic’s link isn’t the first content in the post, for example.