How to Use HTML Tags for Links

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Use HTML Tags for Links

You want to create HTML tags specifically to create links for websites like MySpace.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Step 1

HTML is very simple after you get familiar with it. What you want to do is create a tag in html to link to a web page. The first think you should do is either memorize the following line or learn the function of the link here: SEE IMAGE
Step 2

Replace YOUR WEB ADDRESS above with a web address from your browser like
http://www.google.com this address goes as follows
(http://) is the web connection. If you saw https it would be a secure page, some sites like banks use https so that is ok. https://www.wachovia.com for example.
Step 3

You now should now have a fully functional link, but you should now change the text between the two > ... < to match a better description. Change the text between those two markers to Google's homepage.
Step 4

You should have the open a the href="http://www.google.com" the description between the > ... < symbols and the closing A as seen in the first graphic.

Tips & Warnings

Be sure to have a space after your a in the begin of the tag.
Be sure to close the tag at the end.
Be sure to use http://, https://. mailto:(no slashes here), ftp:// etc as part of your href=""
Be sure to include descriptive text.
The a means anchor, where you are going to settle the browser down at.
The href means the reference or better the location you are going to navigate to
End your a tag using the closing a tag
in HTML tags should try and be compliant that is they should open and close with a similar fashion as seen in the opening of the A and the closing of the A in the picture.
Tags can have other tags in them just down put link tags inside of link tags.
Links should be consecutive not inclusive.
You can format the text inside links using tags or by applying styles called css to your code either inline or by tag.