When you add text to a webpage that begins with “www” or “http,” the text automatically becomes a hyperlink. On your published website, visitors can click this text to open the website it refers to. You can turn off this feature so that iWeb does not automatically turn this kind of text into a link as you type.
Do one of the following:
To turn off automatic link detection completely, choose iWeb > Preferences, and then deselect the “Automatically detect email and web addresses” checkbox.
To make one specific link inactive, open the Link inspector (click the Inspector button in the toolbar at the bottom of the iWeb window or choose View > Show Inspector, and then click the Link button). Click near the link you want to turn off to select it, and then deselect “Enable as a hyperlink” in the Link inspector.
You can also turn off links in iWeb so that you can select and modify them without opening the websites they refer to. To do so, open the Link inspector, click Hyperlink, and deselect “Make hyperlinks active.” This setting doesn’t affect links on your website when you publish.