This how I do it:

*a href="URL goes here">display text goes here</a*

Replace the * at the front with <
Replace the * at the end with >

Could someone explain in layman's language. Thanks.

You need to write the HTML statements yourself. Use Jsnkc's example and change it as required.

> Could someone explain in layman's language

There is no layman’s language. That is to say, these forums don’t give the average person any way to use or bold or italics, etc. Those of us who use them, do so because we know the HTML tags needed to create them. So you must learn HTML if you want to make a hyperlink on this forum. There is no other way.

If you want to make a hyperlink you must use an Anchor tag (i.e., <a href=""></a>. As Jsnkc was trying to show you, the anchor tag for a hyperlink has the following syntax:

<a href="some url">my link text</a>

For example:

<a href="http://www.sony.com/">Sony web site</a>

Would look like:

Sony web site

Is that enough of an explanation? If not I would try and get a book on HTML and see if they do a better job. You just need to know a little HTML do make it work.

(BTW the way to get the less-than symbol to show in an HTML example is by typing < for < )

~jr

Yeah, I didn't think it got much simpler than what I stated!

jr, using & l t only works for MSIE browsers. The W3C standard requires a semicolon on the end and other browsers will only display the actually characters & l t without the semicolon. You really need to have the semicolon on the end so that all browsers will show the < character instead.

Thanks for pointing that out Kelly. I tried to fix it so it now displays correctly with IE, Netscape, and Mozilla. Unfortunately, I had to put a space between the < and the ‘a’ otherwise it would interpret it as an actual < and make it a real hyperlink! I think this has something to do with the forum software and the way it interprets your input.

~jr

What happens is that this forum software interprets the &lt; as a < character before displaying it on the screen. What i usually do is use &#60; instead and then the forum will send that to the browser and let the browser interpret it.

To enter a hyperlink:

<a href=http://www.ahved.com>Anti-High-Volume-Email-Deployers</a>

produces:

Anti-High-Volume-Email-Deployers

Got it! I think I have it fixed now. ;-) (famous last words)

~jr

Jsnkc & JR: thanks for your input. Now I have to learn another language...dread it. I had a tough time learning Premiere, then with Vegas it got a lot easier. Now HTML, no problem.

Johnny, special thanks to you. I find your well-designed website useful and hope all new ( and old) users will visit it. Sorry, right now I can't write a link to it...just afraid of making a mistake with the HTML thing.