Set Link Text For Free

You can also insert a URL link by using the shortcut keys "Ctrl+K". The window below asks you to enter the hyperlink URL. If you selected something before using Ctrl+K, the URL itself will not appear on the page but what you selected will serve as a link to .

For TinyURL: Go to tinyurl.com. Paste the long URL and click the "Make TinyURL!" button. The shortened URL will appear. You can now copy and paste it where you need it.

A link is specified using HTML tag <a>. This tag is called anchor tag and anything between the opening <a> tag and the closing </a> tag becomes part of the link and a user can click that part to reach to the linked document. Following is the simple syntax to use <a> tag.

Get a page URL On your computer, go to google.com. Search for the page. In search results, click the title of the page. At the top of your browser, click the address bar to select the entire URL. Right-click the selected URL. Copy.

A text associated with a link target is described as a link text. This can be a word, a character or even several words up to (theoretically) several sentences. The clickable link text associated with a URL is then described as a hyperlink. Synonyms for link text also include anchor text or reference text.

A basic link is created by wrapping the text or other content inside an <a> element and using the href attribute, also known as a Hypertext Reference, or target, that contains the web address.

In order to create your own branded custom short URLs, you need to point your domain to Bitly servers. To do that, you will need to add DNS records to your custom domain name. DNS records are kind of instructions that point domain name to proper servers.