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