From the course: HTML and CSS: Linking

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Linking to offsite resources

Linking to offsite resources

From the course: HTML and CSS: Linking

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Linking to offsite resources

- [Instructor] Linking within your own website is really important but eventually people may want or need to go somewhere else. How do we send them to another website with a link? The best way to start this process is to visit the website that you want to link to. In this case we're going to link to LinkedIn. And you want to pull that up inside of a browser window. Make sure that is in fact the website that you want to link to. It's real easy in some cases to confuse the site that you're linking to and you wind up linking to the wrong site sometimes with disastrous results. Highlight that web address that's up there at the top of the page and copy that URL at the top of the page. And then you're going to come back to your text editor Here we're inside of the exercise files folder 01-02 inside of the begin folder looking at the file called links.html. And you'll see here on line 14, we have some text that we're going to visit the LinkedIn website. So inside of the paragraph tag, we'll…

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