Nuxt/docs/content/3.docs/1.usage/9.nuxt-link.md

NuxtLink

Nuxt provides <NuxtLink> component to handle any kind of links within your application.

<NuxtLink> is a drop-in replacement for both Vue Router's <RouterLink> component and HTML's <a> tag. It intelligently determines whether the link is internal or external and renders it accordingly with available optimizations (prefetching, default attributes, etc.)

Examples

Basic usage

In this example, we use <NuxtLink> component to link to a website.

<template>
  <NuxtLink to="https://nuxtjs.org">
    Nuxt website
  </NuxtLink>
  <!-- <a href="https://nuxtjs.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">...</a> -->
</template>

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Internal routing

In this example, we use <NuxtLink> component to link to another page of the application.

<template>
  <NuxtLink to="/about">
    About page
  </NuxtLink>
  <!-- <a href="/about">...</a> (+Vue Router & prefetching) -->
</template>

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target and rel attributes

In this example, we use <NuxtLink> with target, rel, and noRel props.

<template>
  <NuxtLink to="https://twitter.com/nuxt_js" target="_blank">
    Nuxt Twitter
  </NuxtLink>
  <!-- <a href="https://twitter.com/nuxt_js" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">...</a> -->

  <NuxtLink to="https://discord.nuxtjs.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
    Nuxt Discord
  </NuxtLink>
  <!-- <a href="https://discord.nuxtjs.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">...</a> -->

  <NuxtLink to="https://github.com/nuxt" no-rel>
    Nuxt GitHub
  </NuxtLink>
  <!-- <a href="https://github.com/nuxt">...</a> -->

  <NuxtLink to="/contact" target="_blank">
    Contact page opens in another tab
  </NuxtLink>
  <!-- <a href="/contact" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">...</a> -->
</template>

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Props

• to: Any URL or a route location object from Vue Router
• href: An alias for to. If used with to, href will be ignored
• target: A target attribute value to apply on the link
• rel: A rel attribute value to apply on the link. Defaults to "noopener noreferrer" for external links.
• noRel: If set to true, no rel attribute will be added to the link
• activeClass: A class to apply on active links. Works the same as Vue Router's active-class prop on internal links. Defaults to Vue Router's default ("router-link-active")
• exactActiveClass: A class to apply on exact active links. Works the same as Vue Router's exact-active-class prop on internal links. Defaults to Vue Router's default "router-link-exact-active")
• replace: Works the same as Vue Router's replace prop on internal links
• ariaCurrentValue: An aria-current attribute value to apply on exact active links. Works the same as Vue Router's aria-current-value prop on internal links
• external: Forces the link to be considered as external (true) or internal (false). This is helpful to handle edge-cases

::alert{icon=👉} Defaults can be overwriten, see overwriting defaults if you want to change them. ::

Overwriting defaults

You can overwrite <NuxtLink> defaults by creating your own link component using defineNuxtLink.

export default defineNuxtLink({
  name: 'MyNuxtLink',
  /* see signature below for more */
})

You can then use <MyNuxtLink /> component as usual with your new defaults.

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defineNuxtLink signature

defineNuxtLink({
  componentName?: string;
  externalRelAttribute?: string;
  activeClass?: string;
  exactActiveClass?: string;
}) => Component

• componentName: A name for the defined <NuxtLink> component.
• externalRelAttribute: A default rel attribute value applied on external links. Defaults to "noopener noreferrer". Set it to "" to disable
• activeClass: A default class to apply on active links. Works the same as Vue Router's linkActiveClass option. Defaults to Vue Router's default ("router-link-active")
• exactActiveClass: A default class to apply on exact active links. Works the same as Vue Router's linkExactActiveClass option. Defaults to Vue Router's default ("router-link-exact-active")