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Creating HTML Text Links: A Guide for Beginners

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Regular text online is just readable. Text is referred to as a text link when you can mouse over it, and click it to open a web page.

Regular Text: Blogging for Beginners Video Series
Active Text Link: Blogging for Beginners Video Series

In HTML text links look like this:
<a href=”http://ecourses.webtechgurl.com/blogging-for-beginners”>Blogging for Beginners Video Series</a>

Let’s break down the HTML Code Above:

  • Every link in HTML Starts with: <a
  • The Next part of the link code is: href=”website url”
    This code tells your web browser what website to link to. Put the webpage url inside the quotes above where it says “website url”
  • Then you add a right arrow: >
  • This is followed by any text you want to include to describe the link. In the example above I used the text ‘Blogging for Beginners Video Series’, which tells the viewer what they will see if they click that link.
  • Then you add the closing tag: <a>

Advanced text links:
If you click on the text link above it will open the Blogging for Beginners webpage in this window. Sometimes you want to open a text link in a new window. Click this link to see what I mean: Blogging for Beginners Video Series

To open a new window when I link is clicked, you must add the target tag, as seen in the example below:
<a href=”http://ecourses.webtechgurl.com/blogging-for-beginners/” target=”_blank”>Blogging for Beginners Video Series</a>

If you have a blog try creating your own text links for practice. If you don’t have a blog, you can practice in a forum text box.

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6 thoughts on “Creating HTML Text Links: A Guide for Beginners

  1. Dr. LaKeidra says:

    Ok i’m going to try this agian…first time didn’t work!

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