How to make an internal hyper link in sphinx documentation

Question

How to make an internal hyper link in sphinx documentation? I am using:

:role:`target`  

But it is not working.

Answer 1

Cross-referencing is done using a ref

:ref:`label-name`

You can provide your labels using:

.. _label-name:

See: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/roles.html#role-ref

Roles are used to create custom interpreted text. See: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#role