How to Use HTML Tags for Links

Sometimes you may want to create a web page with references to HTML tags and make them links to a detail page or an anchor tag somewhere with more details about that particular tag. The trick is to understand that there are 2 levels of how a hyperlink works.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• HTML editor or program that can save plain text with and HTML extension.
• Unserstanding of HTML linking techniques.

1. A Basic Web Page Structure Start with a basic page structure with all standard tags written out.
2. Display protion of the link Create the display part of the Link that will show on the web page. See the image for the code for the left and right bracket
3. Create hyperlinks on the display portion of the link You can then create the hyperlink part of the link by using the a href tags..

Tips & Warnings

• Check you syntax for spelling
• If publishing to a "UNIX" of "Linux" web server make sure your page names are case sensitive if the server requires it.
• If publishing on a widows based server, case sensitivity is not an issue.
• develop a standard for naming files and links within a site as some sites can become quite large and contain hundreds of links very quickly. Having a standard determined beforehand can keep you from multiple rewrites of code