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You create a link to a route using the {{link-to}} helper.

app/router.js
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Router.map(function() {
  this.route('photos', function(){
    this.route('edit', { path: '/:photo_id' });
  });
});
app/templates/photos.hbs
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<ul>
  {{#each photos as |photo|}}
    <li>{{#link-to "photos.edit" photo}}{{photo.title}}{{/link-to}}</li>
  {{/each}}
</ul>

If the model for the photos template is a list of three photos, the rendered HTML would look something like this:

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<ul>
  <li><a href="/photos/1">Happy Kittens</a></li>
  <li><a href="/photos/2">Puppy Running</a></li>
  <li><a href="/photos/3">Mountain Landscape</a></li>
</ul>

The {{link-to}} helper takes one or two arguments:

app/templates/photos.hbs
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{{#link-to "photos.edit" 1}}
  First Photo Ever
{{/link-to}}

When the rendered link matches the current route, and the same object instance is passed into the helper, then the link is given class="active". For example, if you were at the URL /photos/2, the first example above would render as:

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<ul>
  <li><a href="/photos/1">Happy Kittens</a></li>
  <li><a href="/photos/2" class="active">Puppy Running</a></li>
  <li><a href="/photos/3">Mountain Landscape</a></li>
</ul>

Example for Multiple Segments

If the route is nested, you can supply a model or an identifier for each dynamic segment.

app/router.js
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Router.map(function() {
  this.route('photos', function(){
    this.route('photo', { path: '/:photo_id' }, function(){
      this.route('comments');
      this.route('comment', { path: '/comments/:comment_id' });
    });
  });
});
app/templates/photo/index.hbs
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<div class="photo">
  {{body}}
</div>

<p>{{#link-to "photos.photo.comment" primaryComment}}Main Comment{{/link-to}}</p>

If you specify only one model, it will represent the innermost dynamic segment :comment_id. The :photo_id segment will use the current photo.

Alternatively, you could pass both a photo's ID and a comment to the helper:

app/templates/photo/index.hbs
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<p>
  {{#link-to 'photo.comment' 5 primaryComment}}
    Main Comment for the Next Photo
  {{/link-to}}
</p>

In the above example, the model hook for PhotoRoute will run with params.photo_id = 5. The model hook for CommentRoute won't run since you supplied a model object for the comment segment. The comment's id will populate the url according to CommentRoute's serialize hook.

Setting query-params

The query-params helper can be used to set query params on a link:

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// Explicitly set target query params
{{#link-to "posts" (query-params direction="asc")}}Sort{{/link-to}}

// Binding is also supported
{{#link-to "posts" (query-params direction=otherDirection)}}Sort{{/link-to}}

In addition to being used as a block expression, the link-to helper can also be used in inline form by specifying the link text as the first argument to the helper:

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A link in {{#link-to "index"}}Block Expression Form{{/link-to}},
and a link in {{link-to "Inline Form" "index"}}.

The output of the above would be:

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A link in <a href="/">Block Expression Form</a>,
and a link in <a href="/">Inline Form</a>.

When generating a link you might want to set additional attributes for it. You can do this with additional arguments to the link-to helper:

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<p>
  {{link-to "Edit this photo" "photo.edit" photo class="btn btn-primary"}}
</p>

Many of the common HTML properties you would want to use like class, and rel will work. When adding class names, Ember will also apply the standard ember-view and possibly active class names.

Replacing history entries

The default behavior for link-to is to add entries to the browser's history when transitioning between the routes. However, to replace the current entry in the browser's history you can use the replace=true option:

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<p>
  {{#link-to "photo.comment" 5 primaryComment replace=true}}
    Main Comment for the Next Photo
  {{/link-to}}
</p>