How to Make Something Clickable

Use anchor tags to create clickable links on the Web.

A clickable link may be a text, image or object that points to a section on your Web page, another Web page within or outside your website or an email address. Depending on the background styles for the site, your text link may display as blue, underlined text and your image links may include a blue border. When you roll over a clickable link, your mouse turns from an arrow pointer into a pointing hand. Anchor tags can help you create text and image links in the HTML code.

Instructions

1. Start an HTML editor, such as Notepad, EditPad or WordPad. Select "File" and "Open" from the menu. A dialog box will open. Double-click the HTML file that contains the image or text you want to make clickable.

2. Scroll to the text or image on your page. The HTML code for the image may be similar to: '<img src="your-image-name.gif" />.'

3. Add '<a href="URL">' before the image or text and '</a>' after the image or text as follows:

   <a href="URL">text you are linking goes here</a>

   <a href="URL"><img src="your-image-name.gif" /></a>

4. Replace "URL" with the actual website you want to link to, such as:

   "http://yourwebsite.com/page.html"

References

• W3 Schools: HTML <a> Tag