Q&A for How to Insert a Hyperlink

In most cases HTML will not work for wikiHow. WH uses a different language for coding.

There are different codes, depending on where the link is going. This is to link to another web page. 1.) Type the text you want readers to select to display another page. 2.) Type <A Href="?"> in front of the text, replacing the ? with the address of the web page you want to display. 3.) Type </a> after the text.

A link needs the simple tags of a and /a that start and end it, with brackets before and after. If you ignore the leading dot inserted in this answer, it would look like and tags. (Remove the leading dots.)

Click or tap the address in the address bar to highlight it. Right-click the highlighted web address or tap and hold it on mobile devices. Click or tap Copy in the pop-up menu.