Links pasted into comments are not "live." That is, if you click on the following link, it will not take you to Google
http://www.google.com
The link will, however, work if you copy and past it into the address window of your browser.
To insert a working link in a comment, you must use the HTML anchor tags <a> and </a>. For example, if you want to include a live link as follows, "Go here to the Google home page," you must use the anchor tags and write, "Go <a href="http://www.google.com">here</a> to the Google home page."
An opening a tag contains <a href="[any web address]">, and the address must be in quotes. The words following the opening tag will be highlighted in some way to indicate they can be clicked on as a link, and the closing tag </a> determines the end of the highlighting for the link.
The other HTML tags permitted in comments are as follows
<em> emphasis
<b> bold
<i> italics
They must all have end tags. I will illustrate the use of all five tags in a comment to this post. (Posts are written with a WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") editor instead of embedded HTML codes.
Go <a href="http://www.google.com">here</a> to the Google home page.
<em>This is an example of emphasized text.</em>
<b>This is an example of bold text.</b>
<i>This is an example of italic text.</i>
Go here to the Google home page.
ReplyDeleteThis is an example of emphasized text.
This is an example of bold text.
This is an example of italic text.