Sakai Tutorials
Working with Links in the Rich Text Editor

The rich text editor allows you to create a link to a URL or other location such as an FTP site, an anchor you have created in the text, or an email address.

To link to an item stored in Resources, to an external URL (a link outside of the CLE), such as www.ohsu.edu or an FTP site, follow these steps:

1. If you are linking to an external link and do not know the URL, find it and copy it.
   
   
2. In the rich text editor, choose the display text you want to use for the link. To do so:
   • Either enter “click here” or other text the viewer should click on, and then select that text,
   • or to use the URL as the display text, position the cursor where you want the URL to be displayed.
3. Click the Insert/Edit Link icon (). The system displays the Link window.
   
   
4. Near the top of the window, be sure the Link Info tab is selected.
   
   
5. In the Link Type pulldown list, be sure URL is selected.
   
   
6. Use the Protocol pulldown list to select the appropriate protocol (usually http:// or https://). 
   
   
7. Choose one of these options:
   • To link to an external URL (one not in the CLE), type or paste the URL into the URL box.
   • To link to an item stored in Resources in any site to which you belong, click Browse Server and click the item you want.
     
     
8. To complete the selection, click OK. Or, to exit without linking, click Cancel. If you clicked OK, the editor displays the text for the link (that is, either text you selected in step 2 or the URL itself) in the text box.