Discussion > can someone explain in simple language how to make a link come up blue?
Many thanks Martin A. I'm testing by linking to this page here
I got Radical Rodent's instructions to work on about the sixth attempt. The HTML tools at the bottom of the page here seem to have an absurd number of quotation marks, and I didn't realise there are two thingies, the a href one and the /a one
Jul 21, 2014 at 11:57 AM |
geoffchambers
geoffchambers
All HTML tags have an opening and a closing tag. Closing tags have a /, most tags are lower case so for highlighting a quote you've copied and pasted (something journalists should do more often) you put (using Martin A's convention)
«blockquote>
then the copied text
«/blockquote>
You can see how it looks with the Preview Post button.
Jul 21, 2014 at 12:10 PM |
SandyS
SandyS
Mark it as a favourite in your browser. Copy and paste it to the comment box. The instructions are in it.
Jul 22, 2014 at 9:54 AM |
ssat
ssat
can someone explain in simple language how to make a link come up blue? I've tried a dozen times with those HTML thingies at the bottom of the page, but it never works]
Jul 20, 2014 at 11:20 PM | Registered Commentergeoffchambers
Here's a method that works and requires you to memorise just about nothing.
1. Bookmark the following web page: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp
2. When you need to make a clickable link, go to that bookmarked page and copy and paste the line
«a href="http://www.w3schools.com">Visit W3Schools.com!«/a>
into the text you are writing. (I've had to use '«' here instead of '<', but you get the idea.)
3. Replace http://www.w3schools.com between the double quotes with the URL you want to send readers to.
4. Replace Visit W3Schools.com! with the text of your choice (which can be the URL if that's what you want people to see)
5. Use Preview Post and check that it works.
Please somebody check that what I have written works - slods law often applies when you try to explain how to do things.