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Creating and "Breaking" Hyperlinks

Pages you create automatically are included in the navigation panel, unless you specify otherwise. You also may, in the page content, make specific reference to other pages—within your website and in outside sites—by including a hyperlink in your page.

Create the Link

Highlight the page element you want as the hyperlink (one or more characters of text and/or a graphic image), then, either… Right-click the selection and select Insert Hyperlink… Click the Hyperlink icon  in the toolbar. Select the URL button, if not already selected. In the URL: field… If the reference is to another page in your website, type nnn.asp , where nnn is the SBT-assigned page number (for example 687.asp ). If the reference is to an outside page, include the full URL. You may type it or open another browser instance, go to the page, copy the URL from the address field and paste it in this field. In the Target: field, type new if you want the referenced page to open in a separate browser window. Click OK.

Class: and Style: are beyond the scope of this tutorial.

SBT assigns a font size and color to the hyperlink as defined by the template's style sheet(s). It generally is not a good idea to impose your own explicit formatting to the hyperlink. Consistent appearance helps users know what to expect.

Break the Link
If you decide to eliminate the link, even if you intend to delete the page element to which you assigned the link…

1. Position your cursor anywhere within the defined hyperlink element.
2. Click the Remove Hyperlink icon  on the toolbar.

You risk leaving extraneous HTML markup in your page if you fail to remove the link before deleting the text/image—not necessarily catastrophic, but messy.

 

 

 

 

 

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