docs: document how external link icons work (#37025)

After PR #36601 which added icons to all external links. Documented how this is happening via comments in scss file. For details visit PR #36601

PR Close #37025
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Ajit Singh 2020-06-10 22:29:28 +05:30 committed by Misko Hevery
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// The following css rule adds an icon to external links in the docs area.
// The following `folder-*` classes are applied to the `doc-viewer`component when it is displaying docs for these areas of the documentation.
// We add the icon to all external links which are identified as absolute links (those that start with `http` or https`).
// For more info see PR #36601
.folder-api,
.folder-cli,
.folder-docs,
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}
// The docs-viewer also contain links to GitHub (e.g. the edit this page icon) identified with `.github-links` class.
// We don't want to add the external link icon to these links, so we hide them.
.github-links a {
&[href^="http:"]::after,
&[href^="https:"]::after {