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Adding hypertext links


After you've added content to your Web page, you need to provide viewers with a way to move from that page to other locations in your Web site. With Adobe GoLive, you can easily create links that originate from text on your page and take users to other pages in your site, locations on the same page as the link (called anchors), other pages on the Internet, or non-Web resources such as FTP servers, newsgroups, and e-mail addresses.

As an alternative to creating hypertext links, you can create links that originate from images or parts of images (called image maps). For information on creating links from images, see Additional image options and Creating image maps. You can also create dynamic events that are triggered by mouse actions or create links that are triggered by actions other than mouse clicks. For information on creating dynamic events or links using actions, see Setting up actions.

To create a hypertext link:

1 Select the text that you want to use as the origin of the link.

2 Do one of the following:
  • Choose Window > Inspector. In the Text Inspector, click the Link tab. Click the New Link button () on the toolbar. To specify a link destination, select a file using the Point and Shoot button (), or the Browse button. You can also enter a URL or e-mail address in the URL text box. When doing so, you need to include "http://" at the beginning of the URL and "mailto:" at the beginning of the e-mail address in the URL text box.
  • Ctrl-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (Mac OS) from the selected text to the desired link destination within the site window. The link destination can be an HTML file in the Files tab of the site window, or a URL or e-mail address in the Externals tab of the site window. For information on storing URLs and e-mail addresses in the Externals tab of the site window, see Using site URLs and e-mail addresses.


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    Select text that you want to link. Then Ctrl-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (Mac OS) to link destination.

  • In Mac OS, open the page to which you want the selected text to link. Drag the Page icon () in the document window of the link destination to the selected text.

    • 3 If you haven't done so already, choose Window > Inspector, and click the Link tab of the Text Inspector.

    4 If you want your link destination to appear in a frame or new Web browser window, choose an option from the Target pop-up menu in the Text Inspector.

    5 For Title, enter a description of the link for your own reference.

    To remove a hypertext link:

    Select the text that's the origin of the link. Then click the Remove Link button () on the toolbar.

    Page Layout Basics > Adding hypertext links

    Related subtopics:

    Using anchors