How to Use HTML Tags for Links

Know the right HTML tags to manually insert links into your website.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• an incomplete site (the one you want to put links into)
• URL/s of the sites you want to link to (e.g. http://yvetteniople.blogspot.com)
• an HTML editor (e.g. Notepad)

1. NOTE: I used brackets to be able to show the codes required. Change all brackets into less-than/greater-than signs. [] = <>
2. Open your .html file. Find the [body] tag.
3. Insert the following tag where you want the link to appear: [a href="intended_url_here"]
   e.g.
   [a href="http://yvetteniople.blogspot.com"]
4. Think of a name for your link and insert it after the tag above.
   e.g.
   [a href="http://yvetteniople.blogspot.com"]My Blog
5. Close the tag by using [/a].
   e.g.
   [a href="http://yvetteniople.blogspot.com"]My Blog[/a]
6. Save your .html document and preview.

Tips & Warnings

• Don't forget to change the brackets or the codes won't work!
• The quotation marks for the URL are unnecessary, but highly recommended.
• The [a href=""][/a] tags should always be placed INSIDE the [body][/body] tags.
• NEVER forget to close the tags.
• The appearance of your links can be customized. Experiment. :)