Title: hyperlink formats
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# hyperlink formats

 *  Resolved [TomJohnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomjohnson/)
 * (@tomjohnson)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-formats/)
 * When I create hyperlinks, can I just use the regular HTML code, such as [Sample Page](http://www.sample.com)
 * Or do I have to add other ID and title tags, such as
    [Sample Page](http://www.sample.com)
 * I haven’t been doing the latter, but I haven’t noticed any problem with the display.

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 *  [Les Bessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbessant/)
 * (@lesbessant)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-formats/#post-366800)
 * Ummm, unless you own sample.com, those links aren’t really showing anything.
 * If you redo that with the code in “backticks”[1][2], we’ll be able to see what
   you mean.
 * [1] On my (UK) keyboard, that’s to the left of 1 and above Tab. I think it may
   be in the vicinity of ~ on other layouts.
    [2] And I **still** think asking people
   to mark code with a key most people haven’t heard of isn’t the best idea…
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-formats/#post-366801)
 * To answer the question, yes, the former is fine (and still considered valid) 
   for old fashioned text links.
 * On LB’s [2]: A partial agreement, but on a board where people are constantly 
   posting code fragments, you try to come up with a little-used key that can act
   as a raw code marker.
 *  [Les Bessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbessant/)
 * (@lesbessant)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-formats/#post-366803)
 * The word “code” in square brackets would be more readily understandable by people
   in general.
 * Or maybe just moving the instructions **above** the post textarea?
 *  Thread Starter [TomJohnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomjohnson/)
 * (@tomjohnson)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-formats/#post-366974)
 * Oops, I didn’t realize that my html code would be converted into the real thing.
   I meant to write [a href=”sample.com”]Sample [/a]
 * my site is [http://stc-suncoast.org/](http://stc-suncoast.org/)
 * Thanks for your response.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-formats/#post-366974)
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