Link Buttons#

A button showing an hyper link to a resource.

GtkWidget *link = gtk_link_button_new ("https://developer.gnome.org");

gtk_button_set_label (GTK_BUTTON (link), "Developer Documentation");

link = Gtk.LinkButton(uri="https://developer.gnome.org",
                      label="Developer Documentation")

var link = new Gtk.LinkButton.with_label ("https://developer.gnome.org",
                                          "Developer Documentation");

const link = new Gtk.LinkButton({
  uri: "https://developer.gnome.org",
  label: "Developer Documentation",
});

It is possible to use a link to any resource that has a URI scheme with a handler defined in the operating system; for instance, this button will open the help browser:

GtkWidget *help = gtk_link_button_new ("help:devhelp");

gtk_button_set_label (GTK_BUTTON (help), "Open the Devhelp documentation");

help = Gtk.LinkButton(uri="help:devhelp", label="Open the Devhelp documentation")

var help = new Gtk.LinkButton.with_label ("help:devhelp",
                                          "Open the Devhelp documentation");

const help = new Gtk.LinkButton({
   uri: "help:devhelp",
   label: "Open the Devhelp documentation"
});

Useful methods for the component#

If you want to know whether the user clicked the button and visited the URL, then you can use the get_visited() method. If you change the URL of the link button, the GtkLinkButton:visited property will be reset.

API references#

In the examples we used the following classes:

GtkLinkButton