To create a link in your item description, you'll have to edit the HTML code for your listing directly if you're using the standard or advanced selling form or Follow these steps to create a link:
- As you enter your item description text, enter the text "***CREATE LINK
HERE***" to help you to find the place where you want to insert your link
once you switch to HTML view.
- Click the "HTML" tab over your item description to switch to the HTML
view editor.
- In the sea of HTML code that you see, find the "***CREATE LINK HERE***"
text that you entered earlier.
- Replace it with the following:
<a href="ADDRESS">LINK TEXT</a>
In place of "ADDRESS," enter the complete link, without leading or trailing spaces, beginning with "http://" and enclosing the entire link in double quotes. In place of "LINK TEXT," enter the text that you want users to have to click on to visit that link. For example:
<a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk">Click to visit eBay!</a>
looks like this in the actual listing:
Click to visit eBay!
- After entering your link, click once again on the "Standard" tab at the top of your item description to return to the normal editing view, where you should see your link.