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Website Builder: How to Add Links
Website Builder: How to Add Links

Discover how to add various kinds of links to your site

Updated over a year ago

If you use Hostinger Website Builder, you can add links to a variety of places on your site:

Adding a Link to the Navigation Menu

  1. Within the editor, open the Pages and navigation panel on the left

  2. Click Add link:

    The button that allows adding a link to the website's menu bar

  3. Rename the link; you can use any symbols, including emojis 📞 ✉️ 🚚

  4. For the Link to, select the object to link to:

    1. Web address:

      • URL – insert any URL

      • Phone number – insert any phone number, including the country code

      • Email – insert any email address

    2. File download – upload a file from your local device

    3. Section – link to a particular section within your website

  5. (Optional) Open in new tab

  6. (Optional) Make link nofollow

  7. (Optional) Hide page – hides a page (in this case, the link) from the navigation menu

  8. Finally, save the changes:

A settings pop-up for adding a link to the website's menu bar

Adding a Link to a Text Element

  1. Click on a text element and select Edit text

  2. Select (highlight) the text you want to hyperlink

  3. Click on the link symbol

  4. For the Link to, select the object to link to:

    1. Web address:

      • URL – insert any URL

      • Phone number – insert the phone number, including the country code

      • Email – insert any email address

    2. File download – upload a file from your local device

    3. Section – link to a particular section within your website

    4. Another page within your website – select the page to link to

  5. (Optional) Open in new tab

  6. (Optional) Make link nofollow

  7. Finally, save the changes:

The pop-up of link settings when hyperlinking text

Adding a Link to an Image Element

  1. Click on an image element and select Change image

  2. Open the Action tab

  3. For the On click, select Open link

  4. For the Link to, select the object to link to:

    1. Web address:

      • URL – insert any URL; this also allows linking to specific sections within your website

      • Phone number – insert any phone number, including the country code

      • Email – insert any email address

    2. File download – upload a file from your local device

    3. Section – link to a particular section within your website

    4. Another page within your website – select the page to link to

  5. (Optional) Open in new tab

  6. (Optional) Make link nofollow

  7. Click outside the settings box to close it; the changes are saved automatically:

The Action tab in the Image settings allows opening a link upon a click on an image

Adding a Link to a Button Element

  1. Click on a button element and select Edit button

  2. (Optional) Rename the button

  3. For the Link to, select the object to link to:

    1. Web address:

      • URL – insert any URL; this also allows linking to specific sections within your website

      • Phone number – insert any phone number, including the country code

      • Email – insert any email address

    2. File download – upload a file from your local device

    3. Section – link to a particular section within your website

    4. Another page within your website – select the page to link to

  4. (Optional) Open in new tab

  5. (Optional) Make link nofollow

  6. Click outside the settings box to close it; the changes are saved automatically:

A button settings pop-up that allows adding a link to a button element

Adding Links to Your Social Media Channels

  1. Add a social icons element to the preferred place on your website

  2. Click on the element and select Edit social icons

  3. Click on the settings wheel next to the suggested icons (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) and insert your own links there, or click Add new link to add links to other social media platforms

  4. Click outside the settings box to close it; the changes are saved automatically:

An element for adding links to social media channels
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