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A link can be placed anywhere on a webpage. The text often includes a link to other content on the website or to web pages at another location (URL) on the Internet.

You can easily create a link either by inserting it into existing text, or creating it whenever you type text. 

1.  Insert Link Based on Existing Text

1. Select the text which should be used as the link text.

2. Click the Insert Hyperlink toolbar button  to insert a link, and a dialog box containg the link properties will open: 
    

3. Fill out the URL at the top of the dialog box:
   
   • If the link refers to another website, type in the address, for example: www.sitecore.net.
   • To create an internal link, the one which refers to the website content, use the browse button to open the content tree and select the proper content: 
     
      
4. Select the link type from the list of options. The http:// selection is the most frequently used one. 
   
    
   Possible link type selections are:
   "http://" - Select when linking to an external web source, such as www.sitecore.net, and an internal web source.
   "https://" – Select when the destination uses a secure connection.
   "ftp://" - Select if the link refers to a ftp folder on the server.
   "news://" - Select if the link refers to a news server.
   "mailto:" – Select  when an email address is inserted into the text.
   Note: this will use the locally installed email application on the visitor's client.
   
   

5. Please refer to the Administrator for further guidance if any questions arise. 

6. The Title field specifies the help text you see when the mouse hovers over the link. 

7. Use the class field when you need to define a specific formatting in the CSS style sheet. 

8. The Target field specifies whether the linked content should be displayed in the current window, a new window, the topmost window, or the parent window, where the current window or a new window are the most frequently used ones.  If the Target field is not set, the link will behave according to the default settings for the current page. 

9. When done, click OK.

   The link will appear in the text with appropriate link formatting (as blue and underlined, as it is shown below or following the formatting defined in a CSS style sheet).

Additional options exist in the link dialog for setting the link appearance and other features. These are for advanced users and will be described elsewhere.

2.  Create a Link Without Initial Text

Creating a link in this way is, basically, the same as creating a link associated with the existing text. Only the start conditions differ.

Place the cursor where the link should be inserted. 

1. Place the cursor where the link should be inserted.

2. Click the Insert Hyperlink toolbar button .

3. Fill out the dialog box as described above (see steps 3-8).

Notice that the text created to represent the link will be the same as the URL. 
While this method may be appropriate for a simple external address, such as www.sitecore.net, we shouldn’t use it for internal links.

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