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Creating hyperlinks

Hyperlinks are clickable text or objects that link visitors to another webpage in the same website or another site. In iWeb, hyperlinks are easy to create using the Link inspector or by dragging web addresses (URLs) and files directly to a webpage.

Objects that are hyperlinks have a blue arrow in the lower-right corner. These arrows don’t appear on your published website.

Image of the hyperlink arrow on a photo

Using the Link Inspector:

  1. On your webpage, select the text or object you want to turn into a hyperlink.

  2. If the Link inspector isn’t open, click Inspector in the toolbar at the bottom of the iWeb window, and then click the Link button.

  3. Image of the Hyperlink pane of the Link Inspector.
  4. Select “Enable as a hyperlink,” and then choose an option from the Link To pop-up menu:

  5. One of My Pages: Opens another page in any of your iWeb websites. Choose the page from the Page pop-up menu.

    An External Page: Opens any page on another website. Type the address in the URL field. To make the link open a new page (and leave the current page open), select “Open link in new window.”

    A File: Downloads a file to the visitor’s computer. (The file is part of your website; visitors won’t have access to your computer.)

    When you choose this option, a window opens. Browse for the file you want to link to, and then click Open. To choose a different file, click Choose in the Link inspector.

    An Email Message: Opens a new email message containing the email address and subject you specify.

By dragging objects to a page:

If you want to add the link within existing text, drag the object to the point in the text where you want the link to appear.

The name of the link that is created is the same as the URL, file, or page that was dragged to the webpage.

  • Drag a page from the sidebar on the left of the iWeb window to create a link to the page.

  • Drag a URL from your browser’s address field to create a link to that page on the web. If you drag the URL to an image, the image becomes the hyperlink.

  • Drag a non-media file (except a text or a PDF file) from the Finder to create a link to the file.

Related Topics

Formatting text hyperlinks

Editing a text hyperlink

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