Insert and remove hyperlinks

Use hyperlinks to forward the reader of the text to specific websites, documents, other places in the text, or an e-mail address. You can also write tooltips. You use the Hyperlink Manager to set such hyperlinks, anchors in text, and tooltips.

To set and remove hyperlinks, use the following buttons, which are part of the basic display mode of the toolbar.

Set a hyperlink to a webpage or an e-mail address

Perform the following

1. Select a word or phrase which you want to make a hyperlink.
   When the hyperlink is clicked on the website it opens your e-mail client.
2. Click  (Create a link) from the pop-up toolbar,  (Create a link) from the main toolbar, or press CTRL+K.
   The Insert a link window appears.
3. In the Link to... field, enter the address of the webpage or the e-mail address which you want to reference.
   If you want to target an existing page on your website, click the Select page or content and choose it from the list that appears.
   For example, john@mydomain.com.
4. In Text to display input field, enter the name of the link as you want it to appear on your webpage.
   By default the word or phrase that you have selected appears in the field. 
   
5. In Tooltip input field, you can enter a tooltip text that appears as the user hovers over the hyperlink.
6. In More options » Attributes you can add any valid HTML attribute.
   For example, you can change the formatting of the link by applying a CSS style using the style attribute.
7. When finished, click OK.
   The system sets the hyperlink and changes its formatting.

Edit a hyperlink

1. To edit a hyperlink, place the cursor on the hyperlink and click  (Edit link).
2. The Edit link screen opens.
   For more information, see the procedure above.

Example

Link Text:

Enter the following sentence in the text editor:

Use Sitefinity CMS to develop webpages.

Select Sitefinity CMS and open the Hyperlink Manager.

In Link Text input field the word Sitefinity CMS appears.

If you leave it like this, on your webpage the following will appear:

Use Sitefinity CMS to develop webpages.

You can then change the text of the hyperlink. For example, Sitefinity CMS 15.4.

Without link text:

Enter the following sentence in the text editor:

For more information, see

Place the cursor at the end of the sentence, open the Hyperlink Manager, and enter www.mysite.com in the URL field. Leave the Link Text input field empty.

The following appears on your webpage:

For more information, see /

Hyperlink to e-mail:

Enter the following sentence.

Contact us if you need help.

Select Contact us, open the Hyperlink Manages and set a link to e-mail. In Address field enter john@mydomain.com, in Subject field, enter support.

The following will appear on the webpage

Contact us if you need help.

When the user clicks the link, their mail client opens a new email where john@mydomain.com already appears in the address box and the subject of the e-mail is support.

1. To remove a hyperlink to a webpage, a specific anchor in the text, an e-mail address, or a tooltip, place the cursor on the hyperlinked word or phrase.
2. Click Remove Link in the toolbar, select Remove Link from the context menu of the link, or press CTRL+SHIFT+K.
   The system removes the link and the formatting.