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How do you make websites appear blue and become clickable?

I've answered over 500 questions (some of them correctly!) and have never asked one until I finally got tired of being the dumb one who can't figure out how to highlight a website. I know it's probably easy. I have a Mac, if that makes a difference. It'll be my first chance to award the 10 points.

Update:

Ron, I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about.

I don't want to highlight text or move it. I just want to make a website I direct someone to able to be clicked on to direct them to it. On a Mac. By a computer idiot (that's why I bought the Mac in the first place).

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Link Codes:

    Making an image a link:

    <p><a href="URL path to external link" title="Mouseover Description"><img style="width: XXpx; height: YYpx; border: 0;" src="Path to image" alt="Text Description"></a></p>

    If site does not host images, then you MUST host your image online at any good image hosting site. The "src" image URL MUST be the DIRECT link to the image alone and not to the page the image is on.Put the DIRECT URL to ONLY the image in the src="" attribute. Put the correct link for the site in the href="" attribute.

    Text Link only:

    <p><a href="URL path to external link" title="Mouseover Description">Link Text Description</a></p>

    You can change the "p" tags to div tags and style as needed.

    You may not know it, but a link has four different states that it can be in. CSS allows you to customize each state. Please refer to the following keywords that each correspond to one specific state:

    * link - this is a link that has not been used, nor is a mouse pointer hovering over it

    * visited - this is a link that has been used before, but has no mouse on it

    * hover - this is a link currently has a mouse pointer hovering over it/on it

    * active - this is a link that is in the process of being clicked

    Using CSS you can make a different look for each one of these states:

    a:link {

    color:#006;

    text-decoration:none;

    cursor:pointer;

    }

    a:visited {

    color:#369;

    }

    a:hover {

    color:#f60;

    text-decoration:underline;

    }

    a:focus {

    outline: none; /* remove the dotted outline added by Firefox */

    }

    a:active {

    color:#fc9;

    cursor:wait;

    }

    a:link {color: #090;}

    a:visited {color: #999;}

    a:hover {color: #333;}

    a:focus {color: #333;}

    a:active {color: #090;}

    Order matters. If "a:active" precedes "a:hover", the effects in "a:hover" will take precedence. So, in this example, you would not see the color change when the user clicks down on a link.

    Ron

  • 1 decade ago

    You should be able to do this on any website and in any browser. All the usual ways of selecting text or images will work, either dragging the mouse, or placing the cursor at the start of what you want to copy then moving the mouse cursor to the end and shift clicking.

    Oops, sorry, forgot you're using a Mac. The click and drag method will work, so will pressing shift and then click at the start of the text you want to copy then click again where you want your selection to end.

    Some websites do disable the mouse buttons, but usually by using JavaScript which is easily circumvented or disabled.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Ctrl A

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