Development Simple HTML question... please help.

I'm trying to add a HTML link in an ebay auction so people that view the auction can just click on it instead of copying and pasting.

This is the link:
http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews/3956/

Could someone please tell me what HTML code I have to add to the link so it will turn blue in the auction so people can click on it.

Thank you.

 

It should be <A HREF="http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews/3956/">http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews/3956/</A>

 

Code:

<a href="http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews/3956/">http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews/3956/</a>

 

Thanks guys.

I'm a little rusty. I forgot I had to include what I actually wanted to be displayed... without that it was just making it disappear.

Thanks again.

 

Sorry, but I have another question.

Is there a way to make it so when they click on the link it opens the link in a new window instead of navigating away from the auction page?

 

Yes. Add: target="_blank" to your anchor tag.

Your code would then look like this:

Code:

<a href="http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews/3956/" target="_blank">http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews/3956/</a>

-monkey

 

Now here's a random question... Is there code like the target="_blank" to open the link in a new Firefox tab?

 

The randomness of that question surprised me.

No

 

I'm not entirely sure about that one. The way Firefox works on my machine, it takes any (target="_blank") attribute and loads the page in a new tab. But, I have Firefox set up to open new windows in tabs, configured from the Tools>Options>Tabs menu. Your mileage may vary.

EDIT: I should mention that there are only 4 officially recognized "Target" attributes: _Self, _Parent, _Top, and _Blank. Others may exist, but support is sketchy.

-monkey

 

There shouldn't be. It would make the code browser-specific rather than W3-compliant and the fan-boys would get upset.

But the actual user can pick & mix how and where a link opens. On mine, middle-click will force a new tab even without 'target="blank"'.

 

Since most of the big browsers support tabs now, I'm surprised that there's not a defacto standard of _tab or something.

 

Don't hold your breath...

Reasons? See here.