Creating a hypertext linked word in your writing

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I wished that my reader could just go to a URL or link of something that had been already posted on the internet.

At first I would just type the URL and it would self change into a hyperlink that would work. For example the URL

Of course some URLs get real unwieldy and seem to drag on forever and one time I used one of these. One of the site administrators or another friendly soul with edit access corrected my entry by replacing it with a linked word. Using the same example as above I would now have the link in the form of the story title, Blue Moon

Naturally I had to see how this was done and Erin kindly explained it to me. You just type the text you want to link, highlight it, click the make-link button, (in the tools icons above the body block you write or paste in)

fill (or paste) in the URL in the space provided (and an optional title the bottom box if you choose) and it just works. And indeed, it works just fine.

That'll do, but...

Daniela Wolfe's picture

That'll do, but I'd just like to point out that the double div tag is redundant. And there really is no need to specify a width or height if you're not resizing the image.

This will do the same thing with all the unnecessary coding removed:

<div align="center"><img src="/topshelf/system/files/u4007/Book.png" alt="Book.png" />
ENTER HERE</div>

The more redundant coding you use the longer it takes the web browser to render the code. Granted what I removed probably won't amount to a significant increase in load time, but if the document were to contain a number of these redundancies it would add to the load time.


Have delightfully devious day,

Thanks,

I made the suggested change about leaving out the size, but for some reason the text would not stay centered so I left that in the posting and example.