- Highlight the text you'd like to turn into a link. If you do not select any text before using the link button, your link will be created but without anything to click on.
- Click the Link button (or hit control+shift+a on your keyboard):
- A pop-up window will appear prompting you for a URL you'd like to link to. Type the URL in the text box. Remember the
http://!
If this link button doesn't appear in your browser, or isn't working for some reason, you can type in the link by hand:
<a href="http://URL">TEXT</a>
Here's an example scenario:
Let's say you want to tell people about some cool website you found, let's call it, www.somecoolwebsite.com. Here's an example of what you might type into your blog:
Hey all. Check out<a href="http://www.somecoolwebsite.com">this</a>! It's a really cool website I found.
In this example, the word "this" would be the link to www.somecoolwebsite.com. That is, it would show up as a blue underlined word on your blog. The key things to note are:
- The "a href" stuff must be enclosed in these kind of brackets
<>. That lets the computer know you're entering HTML and not just typing stuff to be displayed. - The website you want to link to must be in quotes, and must always start with
http://. If you don't have thehttp://, the link probably won't work. - Any text you type after the
>that closes out the bit where you write the website address will be the actual link that shows up on your blog. The</a>tag lets the computer know that any text after</a>is just normal text and should not be part of the link. Note: You have to put the</a>in, otherwise the rest of your blog post will be treated as a link, and it will probably cause other weird things to happen that you don't want.
Notes:
- The hyperlink button is only present in Internet Explorer 5.5/Windows and newer, as well as browsers based on Mozilla 1.3 or later(Camino/Firebird/etc.).
- If you are using a Windows browser, there is a keyboard shortcut to do the same thing. Select the text you want to link and then hit ctrl+shift+a.
- For more information on what you can do with links, please see How can I do more with links?
