How to Create a Link

This wikiHow teaches you many ways to create a link to online content. You can copy and paste the web page address, add a link to an email to hide the page address below the text, or insert a link to the website using HTML.

Table of Contents

Copy and paste the link

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Go to the site where you need to get the address. To find the link of a particular website, you must visit that page first.

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Select the website address. Tap or click the website address at the top of the browser. The link will then be highlighted.

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Copy the address by:

On mobile – Tap Copy when the option appears. You may have to press and hold above the address, or tap Select All first for some phones.
On a computer – Press Ctrl + C (Windows) or ⌘ Command + C (Mac) after the link is highlighted.

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Find a place to paste the link. You can paste the address into any text field (like a Facebook status box, a Microsoft Word document, a mobile messaging app, and so on).

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Paste the link by:

On mobile phones – Tap and hold above the text field, then tap Paste .
On a computer – Click in the text field, then press Ctrl + V (Windows) or ⌘ Command + V (Mac).

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Check the link. After posting the link, tap or click it to make sure it takes you to the right place.

Once in effect, the link will change color.

Add hyperlink to email

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Copy website address . A hyperlink is a link to a web page disguised as text. Hyperlinks are useful when we want to insert a site address without disrupting the flow of the email by including an annoying website link.

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Open emails that you normally use on your computer. Most email services allow you to add hyperlinks to emails, but you can only use the mailbox website, not the mobile app.

If you’re not logged in, you’ll need to type in your email address and password before continuing.
You cannot create hyperlinks in Outlook.

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Open a new email window. This step depends on your email service provider:

Gmail – Click COMPOSE in the upper left corner of the page.
Yahoo – Click Compose in the upper left corner of the page.
Apple mail – Click the blue pen and pad icon

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at the top of the page.

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Click on the email body. This is a relatively large space below the “Subject” section. You will proceed to create a hyperlink at this location.

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Click the hyperlink icon. On most email services, this icon looks like two links and is usually located at the bottom of the “New Email” new message window. After clicking this button, you will be able to insert the hyperlink.

On Apple mail, the hyperlink option is the www icon at the top of the “New Email” window.

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Paste the link in. Click the “Link” or “Hyperlink” data field, then press Ctrl + V (Windows) or ⌘ Command + V (Mac).

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Enter text for the hyperlink. In the “Text to display” field, “Text” or “http://”, type the text you want to display instead of the link.

For example, you can type “click here” in this box to create a link to the page that will be activated every time someone clicks the phrase “click here” in the email.

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Click OK or Save . The hyperlink will be inserted into the email. You can continue composing the rest of the message.

Use HTML

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Open an editor. It can be any program that allows you to enter text (such as Microsoft Word or Notepad).

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You must ensure that the content to be inserted is currently on its own web page. If you want to link to a content on your website, the page or section you want to insert must be on your website.

For example, if you link to an image located on your own website, you must know the address of the page containing the image and the image must be located on your website.

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Create link text. This is what other people will click on to get to the link’s page. Just type a word or phrase into the text editor.

For example, you can use the word “LINK” to represent text for people to click.

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Surround the text with tags. Hyperlinks are specified with the opening tag “<a>”, wildcard text (e.g. “LINK”), and closing tag (</a>).

Your initial link should look like this: <a>LIÊN KẾT</a>

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Add “href” attribute. Type href= in the opening tag to indicate the hyperlink’s destination. The “href” attribute tells the browser where to navigate the user after they click the link.

The incomplete tag should look something like this: <a href=>LIÊN KẾT</a>

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Enter the website address. Between the code “href=” and the sign “>”, type the website address, do not forget to put quotation marks at the beginning and end of the address. This could be an internal link—a link to another page on your website—or an external link to another website page.

For example, if you wanted to insert a YouTube page URL, your link would look like this: <a href="https://www.youtube.com">LIÊN KẾT</a>

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Post link. To insert a link into a web page, you need to access the source code of the page. You can copy the link by selecting and pressing Ctrl + C (Windows) or ⌘ Command + C (Mac), and then pasting it into the website source code using Ctrl + V or ⌘ Command + V .

Advice

Hyperlinks are useful in creating email lists of sources on issues such as introductory training or curriculum.

Warning

Always double-check the syntax of the link before posting. Missing even a single brace or letter can cause the link to break.

Steps

Copy and paste the link

Add hyperlink to email

Use HTML

Advice

Warning

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