Inserting Links on a Page [Website Builder] Follow
Overview of Hyperlink Types
There are three different types of hyperlinks you can add to your site:
- External link: A link to a website other than your own. A user clicking on an external link will be taken to a page on a different website.
- Mailto link: A link to an email address. When a user clicks on a mailto link, a new message qill be opened in the default email program installed on that device, and the email address will automatically be added to the recipient field.
- Internal link: A link to a page within your website. An example would be text which reads “Click here to read more about our team” linking to your Agents page.
Creating or Editing External and Mailto Links in the WYSIWYG editor
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Select text or an image by highlighting it (all content) or clicking it (images only) in the editing view
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Click the Link tool icon
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To make the link direct to a URL (external link), type or paste the destination URL into the URL field and then click “OK”
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To make text or an image link to an email, in the Link Type dropdown, select “Email.” Fill out all of the necessary fields, then click “OK”
** Note: To have the URL open in a new window, after inserting the URL into the text box, select the tab “Target.” Select the Target dropdown and choose “Open in a New Window.”
Creating or Editing an Internal Link in the WYSIWYG editor
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Select an image or text by highlighting or right-clicking it in the editing view
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Choose the page you want to link to from your list of pages. Highlight and copy the page’s path name. Ex. For the "About" page, copy "/about". Make sure you only copy the page path - the portion of the URL AFTER “.com” – so in the above example, the full URL would be“http://www.yourdomain.com/about” but you would only copy “/about”
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Click the Link tool icon
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Paste the copied path into the URL field. This will make the protocol change to other
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Click OK
** Note: You can enter your full domain name plus path to internally link, however if you change your domain name for any reason, you will have to go through your site and edit all internal hyperlinks. It is not advisable to do this, since your staging site will have a different URL than your live site. Only copy the portion of the URL which follows “.com” to avoid this.