HTML-links 101                       

In many places (e.g. care2-comments, ...) you can make clickable links exactly as in any (other) html-document by using the a[nchor]-tag, which is explained in every html-tutorial, e.g. on boogiejack.com or on w3schools.com.

Generally, the syntax is

       <a href="URL">link-text</a>
where the blue parts have to be written exactly as above, URL is the address (starting with "http://") linked-to, and link-text is the text (or, more generally: a part of the html-document, e.g. an image) that's made into a link.
Note, that the anchor tag (like many html-tags) comes in two parts, with the text-to-make-a-link-from in between.

To link, for example, to this here page, you could write a/o i have written something like

       <a href="http://wda.tradivarium.at/how2link.htm">HTML-links 101</a>

For more examples just look (e.g. in FireFox by pressing <Ctrl-U>) at the source-code of an html-page, e.g. this one.



To spare myself some typing, i usually generate those anchor tags
with a little scipt,

e.g. the following ("DOS") Batch-file, named AN.BAT:

ctc "<a href=\"%1\">"
rem ctc.exe Copies Text to Clipboard
rem "%1" refers to the (first) argument passed to AN.bat




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