How do you send out a link request?

[astoller]

Hi
I'm having trouble putting in a link request into emails I send out.

What I want to send is this :

Please cut and past the complete line below into
your web page:
<a href="http://www.abc.com">stairs</a>

So I want the whole line including the word stairs, to appear in their web page.
But when my email request arrives only part of the link is hyper linked in blue, eg jus tthe domain name part,
and I dont think its being cut and pasted properly.
Can you advise?

[specter]

Hi,

I think that you can't send the whole code line because Outlook Express (and other e-mail softwares) is not abled to the codes.

So you can only send the url address to link, but the "button" choice is at the "receiver".

[JKMitchell]

Try <a href='http://www.domain.com>stairs</a>

Note the single ' not a " in the html tag.

Hope this helps.

John

[saoi_jp]

But when my email request arrives only part of the link is hyper linked in blue, eg jus tthe domain name part, and I dont think its being cut and pasted properly.

I think you might be confusing two separate things.

1. HTML code for pasting a link into a website is as you say:

   <a href="http://www.abc.com">stairs</a>

2. In an e-mail message, perhaps none of it will be "blue". However, some mail software will automatically turn anything that begins with http:// into a clickable link.
   

Those two things have nothing to do with each other.

[JKMitchell]

Sorry my example to type into an email message should have read :-

[
Try <a href='http://www.domain.com'>stairs</a>
Note the single ' not a " in the html tag.
]

This then displays as a line of code in Outlook that can be cut and pasted into the html of a webpage (the ' works fine in html ).

Cheers

John