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== Creating Subpages ==

Subpages are groups of pages that share a common prefix, which itself is another page. While this is also possible with "classic" wiki, by using names like {{{SomeTopicSubTopic}}}, the use of {{{SomeTopic/SubTopic}}} allows better navigational support, and you can omit the common prefix when linking from the parent page to the child page.

Thus, by using "/" to concatenate several WikiName''''''s, you can create arbitrarily deep hierarchies (within limits, especially the length of filenames on your system). In reality, subpages are normal pages that contain a "/" in their name, and thus they are stored besides all other pages in the file system. Subpages are a configurable feature, but they're on by default and it's recommended that you keep it that way, since the help pages themselves use this feature.

Links to sibling pages start with "`../`", for example ../SubPages (a link to this page).

=== Example ===
{{{
 * HelpOnEditing/SubPages
 * [[HelpOnEditing/SubPages|This very page]]
 * /ThirdLevel
 * [[/ThirdLevel|A page below this one]]
 * [[/sub page with arbitrary page name]]
 * ../SubPages
 * [[../]] (anonymous parent link)
 * [[../|free parent link]]
}}} 

=== Display ===
 * HelpOnEditing/SubPages
 * [[HelpOnEditing/SubPages|This very page]]
 * /ThirdLevel
 * [[/ThirdLevel|A page below this one]]
 * [[/sub page with arbitrary page name]]
 * ../SubPages
 * [[../]] (anonymous parent link)
 * [[../|free parent link]]

/!\ Please do all of us a favour and don't create the /ThirdLevel pages, it's just an example!
