Like this? Note the space between the a and href

<a href="url here">Your statement here</a>

The easiest way for one link is to use that box you see just below this. You simply copy and paste you link in the top slot and add your comment in the lower box.

this also makes it very easy go to this site and just copy and paste the url address in the box then type what ever you want to name the link in the second box hit the click button and then copy what it gives you which will be the html code and the link info. then you can just paste that right into your rely box. That way if you don't know the html code it does it all for you. Here is the link to that site.

Here is a link that might be useful: linker

Thank you so much owbist and Ravencajun. That worked really well for me. I am always amazed at how much help I can get here.

OK. I am going to test it here.

Here is a link that might be useful: testing

OK. I have that working. Now can anyone tell me how to put a link in an email without showing the URL but just typing a few words to click on.

I did above but here we go again.

<a href="your url placed here">Click here to visit CBC Canada</a>

creates Click here to visit CBC Canada

Owbist, I do not know what I am doing wrong. I wrote an email to myself and put in exactly what you wrote but when I get the email it still shows the jcpenney web site and not just the click here.
I cannot show you what I put in because here it makes the link but on the email it does not
What am I doing wrong?

I used tinyurl once and was told if used it again, I was out of here. lol

OK so you are using the left and right chevron of course
So start with the left chevron ( or less than sign) then a href and the equals sign = then "jcpenny.com" followed by the right chevron (or greater than sign). Now enter Click here for the J C Penney store or whatever phrase takes your fancy. Finish off with a left chevron, a forward slash, the letter a and the right chevron. Done and it should look like this:-

<a href="jcpenny.com:>Click here for the J C Penney store</a>

And that creates:-
Click here for the J C Penney store

Ooops! I see I missed the closing quotation mark " on the example 3 lines from the bottom, also clicking my link will not take you to the J C Penney site because I placed a comma instead of a period after the www. Sorry about those 2 silly mistakes.

Another small point, html does not get used on a lot of forums. They use the [ and ] square brackets instead plus there are slight variations on how these are used.

And lastly, you do have html enabled on your emails I presume?

just try using the linker site I gave you if you do not know html code it puts all the code in for you then you just copy and paste the full link into your email, and as Owbist said you do have to have html enabled in email.

If you use firefox there is an add-on that lets you right click on any link address and it gives you the option to save that with html so that when you paste it you have it all done for you. Search here on this site for the tips and tricks thread.

I have checked and I do have html enabled.
Now I tested up above and it worked by using the box underneathed this message to make a link. But I still cannot get it to work if I try with either the linker site or the way owbist says to do it.
I have figured out a way to make it work in my email by going to their help page there is a way to use there tools and make it work. But neither of the ways here are working for me in my email or this forum or on another forum I go to.
I am thinking that if the forum has a place where you can use a hyperlink available then maybe nothing else will work.

I just go the the page I want to link and click on the url. It will turn blue, right click on it, select copy, go to where you want it and paste. It works both here and in email. Sandy

Here is a link that might be useful: another link

link

And if you have Firefox there is this, Copy as HTML Link. Tiny download, fast and easy to use.

wow this was flashback moment LOL till I realized it was from last June.

unfortunately that link I provided as the linker site no longer is there, I don't know why or what happened but now it is some advertisement portal.

I do like the firefox add-on mentioned, it is absolutely one of my all time fave add-ons and gets used many times a day there are a few other firefox add-ons that can help do links. One is Colt
CoLT 2.4.3
what I like about Colt is that if you are on forums that require BB code it also gives the option to copy the link as BB code as well as HTML.

With Copy as Html Link add-on you can go to a webpage and hilight any single word or group of words on the page then right click on them and from the menu select copy as html link and when you paste it in your reply just the words you selected will show up as the clickable link, so if you go to a page about socks for example and you just find the word socks on the page, hilight the word, right click, choose the copy as html option, and paste it all you see is socks which is blue and clickable. Very cool add-on.