hugo/docs/content/en/methods/shortcode/Ref.md
Bjørn Erik Pedersen 5fd1e74903
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Closes #11925
2024-01-27 10:48:57 +01:00

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---
title: Ref
description: Returns the absolute URL of the page with the given path, language, and output format.
categories: []
keywords: []
action:
related:
- methods/shortcode/RelRef
- functions/urls/RelRef
- functions/urls/Ref
returnType: string
signatures: [SHORTCODE.Ref OPTIONS]
---
The map of option contains:
path
: (`string`) The path to the page, relative to the content directory. Required.
lang
: (`string`) The language (site) to search for the page. Default is the current language. Optional.
outputFormat
: (`string`) The output format to search for the page. Default is the current output format. Optional.
The examples below show the rendered output when visiting a page on the English language version of the site:
```go-html-template
{{ $opts := dict "path" "/books/book-1" }}
{{ .Ref $opts }} → https://example.org/en/books/book-1/
{{ $opts := dict "path" "/books/book-1" "lang" "de" }}
{{ .Ref $opts }} → https://example.org/de/books/book-1/
{{ $opts := dict "path" "/books/book-1" "lang" "de" "outputFormat" "json" }}
{{ .Ref $opts }} → https://example.org/de/books/book-1/index.json
```
By default, Hugo will throw an error and fail the build if it cannot resolve the path. You can change this to a warning in your site configuration, and specify a URL to return when the path cannot be resolved.
{{< code-toggle file=hugo >}}
refLinksErrorLevel = 'warning'
refLinksNotFoundURL = '/some/other/url'
{{< /code-toggle >}}