How to add hyperlinks to Captions or Text Elements to redirect viewers to other pages or external sites.
Video instructions
Adding a link to a Caption
Links can be pointed to Pages within your website, to another Website, or to an email address.
If you are unsure of how to add a caption to a Gallery Page image thumbnail, please see our Adding Captions and Image Descriptions to images guide.
With the Caption field active, highlight the text that you want to act as the hyperlink
Click the 'Link' icon from the mini-toolbar
Create a link to an External Website
Add the full URL
Click 'Open in new window' so that viewers do not leave your site
Click 'Save Link'
Now, when viewing your live site, the text in your Caption will display a link.
Adding a link to a Text Element
This works exactly the same way as Captions.
Select text within the Text Element
Click the 'Link' icon
Link icon activates the 'Create Link' modal window above
Click 'Page'
Click 'Choose a page' to activate a dropdown list of all pages within your website
Select the Page Name
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