Friday, June 20, 2008

Blocking trick: How do I make a link to another webpage?

How do I make a link to another webpage?

  1. 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.
  2. Click the Link button (or hit control+shift+a on your keyboard):
    Insert link
  3. 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://!
    Link popup

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:

TEXT

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 this! 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:

  1. 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.
  2. The website you want to link to must be in quotes, and must always start with http://. If you don't have the http://, the link probably won't work.
  3. 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 tag lets the computer know that any text after is just normal text and should not be part of the link. Note: You have to put the 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?

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