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URL Field

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11. Radio Field
12. Repeatable Field
13. Sql Field
14. Text Field
15. Textarea Field
16. Url Field
17. User Field
18. Usergroup Field
19. How can you group custom fields
20. What components are supporting custom fields
21. Implementation into your component
22. Use custom fields in your overrides

Url

Provides a URL text input field.

Options

Special options within this field are:

• Schemes
  The allowed schemes are HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, MAILTO, URL and FILE. This custom field essentially is a text field with the type of url in the backend while creating an article or a contact or a third party component that supports custom fields. It is only possible to fill in a qualified url - that is one with a scheme and domain such as http://example.com. The url will be translated into punycode prior to saving. This assures that the url will work as intended regardless of environment.
• Relative
  Use this option to determine whether or not relative URLs are allowed.

Related Information

See URL form field type

Screenshots

Creating the field

Let's say you create a field with the options shown in the next figure.

Using the field in the backend

In the backend while creating an article or a contact you see the field like in the following imageː

Using the field in the frontend

In the frontend, you can see the field as you see in the following image. The option Automatic display is responsible for the position of the field and your template is responsible for the design of the field.
Fields are only displayed in the frontend if you have filled them with data in the article. If it is not a required field, can you forget it?

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