making a click through on a banner

how do i put html code in?

[kmcm49]

made a banner on one of the banner sites, but can't figure how to put in html code. when i view it in my browser it shows up in one of my paint programs, where i can only change the appearance.
Anyone know how to help?

[tedster]

Welcome to the forums, kmcm49.

when i view it in my browser it shows up in one of my paint programs

What is the file extension of your banner?

[kmcm49]

thank you for the welcome.
the file ext. is gif.

[tedster]

It sounds like you are clicking on the file name, not the already displayed banner. So the paint program is configured on your system as the default program that opens a .gif file. You can change that preference of what program to use, but that won't solve your question.

If I understand you correctly, the answer is that mark-up is added in the HTML document itself -- mark-up that SURROUNDS an image tag, rather than code that is somehow included in the image file.

<a href="destination-page.html"><img src="banner.gif"></a>

If I didn't understand your question properly, please let me know, and maybe post the HTML that you are currently using to display the banner image.

[kmcm49]

thank you for your reply..
but i can't view the html of the banner.
don't know how to.

[tedster]

The banner itself has no html - it's just a image file, nothing more.

You can build a page that includes that image file within the page's html.