How to Make Text a Link in HTML

Links help viewers navigate through a website.

Links allow users to navigate their way around a website. One of the objects that can provide a link is text. Programmers can attribute a link to any text within an HTML file using specified tags. These tags wrap the text to contain the link to that spot only.

Things You'll Need

• HTML-editing software

Instructions

1. Open your webpage in an HTML-editing software. You can use Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac) if you do not have this type of software. Both come pre-installed on most computers.

2. Locate the text you want to link.

3. Place your cursor before the first letter where the link will start. Input the following code:

   <a href="link">

   Change "link" to the URL of the site you want users to be taken to, but keep the quotation marks.

4. Position your cursor after the last letter where the link will end. Close the tag by typing "</a>" (without quotes). Everything in between the tags will be linked to your specified URL. Here is an example of how your link should look:

   <a href="http://www.ehow.com">eHow.com</a>

5. Save the HTML file and upload it to your server. Preview the webpage to ensure the link works properly.

Tips & Warnings

• You can link an image the same way by replacing the text in between the tags with image code.

References

• W3 Schools: HTML Links