1 `<:url:>`

<:url path [queryargs] [text] [noescape] [extra_args]:>

Produces a URL or an HTML <A> tag. All arguments except path are optional.

queryargs can be a dictionary of arguments which you would like added to the URL as a query string, for example, the dictionary {'foo':5, 'bar':'yes'} gets translated to appending ?foo=5&bar=yes to the url. Defaults to an empty dictionary.
text is an optional string. If it is present, the tag will not just produce a URL, but a full HTML <A> tag with an HREF attribute holding the URL and the text in between.
The noescape argument, if present, tells SkunkWeb not to escape URL-unsafe characters in the path argument, such as spaces or extended characters. By default, SkunkWeb will escape all non-safe characters except for the / character, which it leaves intact. It will escape the : character in your path argument, however.
extra_args is not an argument name: it just means that any other arguments you pass by name will be put in the <A> tag if text is not empty. Example:
```
<:url /index.html text="Home Page" target="_blank" :>
# produces
<a href="/index.html" target="_blank">Home Page<a>
```

The equivalent Python component code would be:

import templating.UrlBuilder
print templating.UrlBuilder.url(path, queryargs, text,
     extra_args_as_dict, noescape)

1 <:url:>