Wednesday, November 24, 2010

How do you change links?

You know how you have like a link to a website, and you can change the name of it to like click here, or something, but it still takes you to the same page? How do you do that? How do you change links?I'm not sure I understand the question. I assume you mean, how do you change the link target.



Well, the basic HTML structure of a link is:



%26lt;a href=%26quot;target URL%26quot;%26gt;Link text%26lt;/a%26gt;



So to link to Yahoo! Answers with a link that said, %26quot;Click here,%26quot; you would type:



%26lt;a href=%26quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/%26quot;%26gt;Click here%26lt;/a%26gt;



Make sure to add the http:// part of the web address, and add a trailing slash to the end of the URL. Good luck!



For more advanced linking, see the following page:

http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_linksHow do you change links?Hi Twilighted -



You have to change the html code for the link. So you need to be able to edit the source code - find the link, and change it like this:

%26lt;a href=%26quot;http://www.leavethistextthesame.co?this text to click here or whatever%26lt;/a%26gt;.



The text between the %26lt;a href=%26quot;...%26quot;%26gt;click here%26lt;/a%26gt; will show 'click here'. More on all the html tags at the w3schools.com -

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp