Making Hyperlinks

Creating a hyperlink is super easy to implement and remember - so you won’t have to keep looking the code up all the time!

The html to create a link is:

<a href="http://yourlink.com">Click here!</a>

This displays as Click here!

You can add variants to this link by specifying whereabouts the link should target. The target is usually any one of these variants:

• _blank - opens a link in a new window
• _parent - opens link in the parent frame
• _self - opens link in the same page
• _top - opens link to break out of a frame

For example:

<a href="http://yourlink.com" target="_blank">Click here!</a>

OR

<a href="http://yourlink.com" target="_top">Break out of a frame!</a>

You can also target links to open in a specific frame by typing target=”framename”. For example, say you have an iframe with the name “main”. To target links to open in the iframe, you would type “target=”main” somewhere in the link html.

<a href="http://yourlink.com" target="main">Open in the iframe!</a>

You can go even further with links by styling them with CSS and classes.

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See also...

• Iframes
• Dropdown Menus

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