How to Use HTML Tags for Links

The use of html tags are more than challenging, it is deadly difficult. Even if you are an expert.

Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• common sense
• more common sense
• a good How to (like this)

1. First of all you must distinguish text from the link. Text is what will appear on the screen. Link is the internet address of the desired site or page (or anything else).
2. Html tags are not allowed in eHow, thus you have to substitute the brackets: like this ‹ ›
3. Here is an example html link:
   (a href="http://www.real-depression-help.com" target="_blank")If you are depressed...(/a)
4. The html tag is (a /a). There are 3 main part inside it.
5. After the first = sign you have to type the URL you want to use (between quotes)
6. The TARGET attribute is optional, it tells how to open the target window. In this case it will be opened in a new (blank) window.
7. The text (If you are depressed or something else) is the text you will see in your browser underlined and in blue.

Tips & Warnings

• use the target="_blank" attribute to separate your link from the source.
• Every sign is very important. A typo may destroy your link.