Hyperlinks

[Dudley]

My hyperlink has stopped working on AB. It works in Outlook and Word so why not here? It always has in the past and I can't understand why it won't now.

www.bbc.co.uk

http://www.bbc.co.uk

Strange thing is when I go to preview, the http:// version above does appear as a hyperlink but usually both versions appear as I type them.

Any suggestions please?

[Ralph]

I think your question answers itself. The link with the http:// prefix appears as a proper link, as does the bit where you typed http:// on its own. When you didn't enter that bit, you didn't get a link!

There may be some coding in Word etc. that recognises www type entries as hyperlinks, but that isn't the case here, it's HTML all the way.
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[Ralph]

It might be helpful to memorise the way of adding the tags necessary to create clickable links with HTML, you'll remember after the first couple of times:
enter < a target='_blank' href="http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk" > AnswerBank< /a > which will appear as AnswerBank if you leave the spaces out that appear after the <'s and before the >'s. AB will add the target='_blank' from the above example, you don't need to type it in.

[Dudley]

Thanks for your helpful replies Ralph. The point I am making is that when I type http://answerbank.co.uk it does not come up as a hyperlink UNTIL I click on preview whereas previously any of the methods would come up highlighted in blue and underlined, as I type them. I will send this as an answer and see if the hyperlink works now.

[Dudley]

As you can see it has worked. I will now try www.answerbank.co.uk

[Dudley]

Which obviously hasn't , so one final time http://www.bbc.co.uk which as you say does work. Although I cannot see it working as I go along. Thanks again.