How to Create HTML Tags for Links

Creating a link in HTML is a fairly easy step.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Notepad
• Webhosting account
• FTP program (I recommend CuteFTP)

1. Open up your notepad or any other HTML editor of your choice. If you use HTML editor, make sure you are in the edit mode since we want to see the HTML tag.
2. Since eHow won't allow HTML tag then I will replace smaller and greater than symbols with curly braces. An HTML page always begin with {HTML} tag then there will be a {HEAD} and {BODY} tag, make sure you have the enclosing tag too. So put this in your notepad/html editor:
   
   {HTML}
   {HEAD}
   {TITLE}My links{/TITLE}
   {/HEAD}
   {BODY}
   
   {/BODY}
   {/HTML}
3. Now we want to put our link in the body. HTML tag for link begin with {a href=""} tag. Inside the quotes will be the link you want the browser to go when they click on the text. Say that you want to have a link to Google website then you want to add this tag inside betwen the {BODY} tag.
   
   {a href="http://www.google.com"}Google Homepage{/a}
4. Once you append the code inside the body tag then you will have the full code as follow:
   
   {HTML}
   {HEAD}
   {TITLE}My links{/TITLE}
   {/HEAD}
   {BODY}
   
   {a href="http://www.google.com"}Google Homepage{/a}
   
   {/BODY}
   {/HTML}
5. Now save the file as "index.html" (without the quotes). Remember where you save the file.
6. Double click on the file and your default web browser (IE/Firefox) will launch and display the page.
7. If you want to publish the page then you need to use FTP program and upload it to your hosting account.

Tips & Warnings

• If you update your page but it doesn't display the changes in your web browser, press CTRL + F5 in your browser to "force refresh" the page
• Remember to replace open and close curly braces with smaller and greater than symbol
• Make sure you have close the bracket, tag and quotes properly otherwise it will give you a weird looking page