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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 13, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-primitive-html-question/348162 "2006-03-13T14:27:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:**  [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-primitive-html-question/348162/1 "2006-03-13T14:27:05Z")
i used to know html coding, but I’m trying to refresh. I remember just aobut everything else, but I can’t remember how to publish a notepad sourcecode page as a real page that would have the hyperlink on it. I also think that i need to create the page to be linked to. I don’t want to go online with these, just on my computer.
these are the only things that I can’t remember.
can anybody help?
thanks,
hh
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**Author:**  [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-primitive-html-question/348162/2 "2006-03-13T14:43:47Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#):
>
> i used to know html coding, but I’m trying to refresh. I remember just aobut everything else, but I can’t remember how to publish a notepad sourcecode page as a real page that would have the hyperlink on it. I also think that i need to create the page to be linked to. I don’t want to go online with these, just on my computer.
> these are the only things that I can’t remember.
> can anybody help?
> thanks,
> hh
So you’re saying that you want to create an offline HTML document that contains a link? What you want would probably look something like this:
```auto
Title goes here
Link text here
```
That’s about as simple as they come. Save your document as whatever.html, and your browser will automatically load when you load that file.
Hope it helps.
Adam
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**Author:**  [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-primitive-html-question/348162/3 "2006-03-13T14:45:35Z")
> [@Agent Foxtrot](#):
>
> So you’re saying that you want to create an offline HTML document that contains a link? What you want would probably look something like this:
>
> ```auto
>
>
> Title goes here
>
>
> Link text here
>
>
>
> ```
>
> That’s about as simple as they come. Save your document as whatever.html, and your browser will automatically load when you load that file.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Adam
Oops, that last \ should be \, but you get the idea.
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**Author:**  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-primitive-html-question/348162/4 "2006-03-13T15:13:01Z")
if you’ve got HTML files mapped to your plain text editor instead of your browser, then it won’t show the hyperlink when you double-click. But there should be a ‘file open’ option in your browser that will let you see it.
Also, you can map multiple applications to a single file type in recent OS-es… well, in windows anyway. 🙂
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**Author:**  [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-primitive-html-question/348162/5 "2006-03-13T15:15:30Z")
> [@Agent Foxtrot](#):
>
> Oops, that last \ should be \, but you get the idea.
THAT DID IT! I am now cured!
thank ye, thank ye, thank ye!
hh
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**Author:**  [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-primitive-html-question/348162/6 "2006-03-13T15:41:17Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#):
>
> THAT DID IT! I am now cured!
> thank ye, thank ye, thank ye!
> hh
Glad to be of service. 🙂