Hyperlinks

[sprayer]

Not sure if this question is in the right place, but it says "how it works" and I want to know how this works. I Know how to copy and paste a web address on to an email, but some that I get only have the words CLICK HERE or TRY THIS so how do you make these words take you to a web site? by the way I use Outlook Express

[ChuckFickens]

Right click on the link and select copy lick location you can then paste it into the mail.

[VHG]

You need to understand their are two types of email - plain text and html.

A plain text email is just that, the text can only be wrttten as plain text, no fancy colors, fonts, or features. So with this type of email you CANT do as you want.

But there are also "HTML" emails. A HTML email can work just like a web site, so there is the words you see on the screen, and the html "code" under the covers.

So what you are getting is HTML emails and so what you "see" in the email is the word "click" but under the covers the actual web site address is hidden.

So if you are using say Outlook you need to make sure your email defaults for sending and receiving mail are both set to HTML.

[VHG]

And this is how you do it with HTML (if you dont know HTML this may not mean much to you, but here goes)

It is the HREF statement (I have had to change the syntax to make it display)

h r e f="http://www.w3schools.com/" (Visit W3Schools!)

What the READER sees is "Visit W3Schools"

But what is under the covers is www.w3schools.com

See thie page below, and scroll down to the heading "The href attribute"

http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp

[sprayer]

Thank you everybody, I think I understand, I'll give it a go...