fake-link

Tiny library allowing to replace HTML elements by links.
Also allows replacing links with HTML elements.

This responds to a SEO logic according to which it is preferable to place a link on a term that makes sense, but this term is not necessarily the one the front-end developer prefers to have a link to.

Thus, robots see a link to a term that makes sense, but the user benefits from more relevant ergonomics.

Install

NPM

npm install fake-link

CDN

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fake-link/dist/fake-link.umd.js"></script>

Init

//ES6
import {Fakelink} from 'fake-link';
new Fakelink(context);

//script CDN
fakelink.Fakelink(context);

Argument	Type
context	HTMLElement | document

Drupal

It is possible to initialize the library as Drupal Behavior from Drupal 8.

//ES6
import {FakelinkDrupalBehaviorInstance} from 'fake-link';
Drupal.behaviors.fakelink = FakelinkDrupalBehaviorInstance;

//script CDN
Drupal.behaviors.fakelink = fakelink.FakelinkDrupalBehaviorInstance;

Usage

Add data-fl-* attributes to the elements you want to replace.

On initialization, the library will process the elements with data-fl-* attributes inside the context.

Attribute	Required	Description
data-fl-href	required	The link to replace the element with. The value must be a valid URL.
data-fl-*	optional	Any attribute starting with data-fl- will be added to the element without the data-fl- prefix. Need to be a valid <a> attribute.
data-fl-mute	required	Add this attribute to mute the element. The new element will be a tag of the type of the attribute value. If no value is provided, the element will be a div.

Examples

Article

<article data-fl-href="/target/link" data-fl-target="_blank" data-fl-rel="nofollow">
    <a href="/target/link" data-fl-mute>
        <h1>Post title</h1>
    </a>
    <div>Read more</div>
</article>

replaced by :

 <a href="/target/link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
    <div>
        <h1>Post title</h1>
    </div>
    <div>Read more</div>
</a>

Replacing a link with a custom item.

<a href="/target/link" class="title" data-fl-mute="span">Title</a>

replaced by :

<span class="title">Title</span>

More examples at digitalwr.github.io/fake-link

ISC License

Copyright © 2023, Matthieu Rébillard, DIGITALWR, LMWR

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

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