In this article, we explain the use of several types of links, such as anchor-, internal-, external- and media/PDF links. These links can be found behind buttons, text links, or even images. Besides that, you could link internally to a page, to an external website, or make the link trigger an action.
1.Textual Links
- Navigate to the text field in which you want to create a link. Click on it so the menu on the left side opens:
- Select the part of text / type the text you want to use as linkt ‘text / label’ > click on the chain-icon to insert/edit a link.
- You can then insert the website the link should refer to (when it is an external website). If you want to link to a page within your website, leave this field blank.
- Press the wheel-icon behind the blue enter-icon.
- If you are linking to an external website: Select the box ‘Open link in a new tab’.
- If you want to create an ‘internal link’: You can select the specific page, that will be shown in the list:
- If you are linking to an external website: Select the box ‘Open link in a new tab’.
- Press ‘Add Link’ to create the link and save it.
2. Image Link
It is possible to add a link behind an image. For image links, as well as buttons for example, you have quite some options.
- Just right-click on the image and press ‘Edit’ or press the pencil-icon, so the menu on the left appears.
- At the bottom of the menu, you see ‘Link’. Choose ‘Custom URL’ in this option.
- Linking to an external website: Fill in the URL you want the image to link to, press the wheel-icon behind the field and check the box ‘Open in new window’.
- Linking internally (within the website): You have quite some options to link internally within your website. Read on about this, in the next chapter of this article.
3. Dynamic Links – Trigger Actions & Internal Links
Dynamic links can be added to for example images and buttons. If you are able to add a dynamic link, the word ‘Dynamic’ will be displayed just above the bar where you usually would fill in the URL. If you press it, this menu will open:
3.1 Internal Link
This option is used to link to pages within your website.
- Press ‘Dynamic‘ behind the Link-field > Site > Internal URL.
- Then click on ‘Internal URL’ in the field > Select ‘Content‘
- Under ‘Search & Select’, manually type some letters of the page’s name you want to link to, and select it.
- It now links to this specific page. The benefit of using internal links (instead of just pasting the URL of the page) is that when you would change the URL of a page within your website in the future – for example, your Location-page – this internal link would still send the visitor to the Location-page.
3.2 Trigger a Pop-Up (with a Link)
- Press ‘Dynamic‘ behind the Link-field > Action > Popup.
- Then click on ‘Popup’ in the field > Action: ‘Open Popup‘
- Under ‘Popup’, press ‘All’ and manually type some letters of the popup’s name you want to link to, and select it.
- It now triggers the popup when someone presses this link.
4. Link to Media Files
- Navigate to Media > Library and upload the file or image you want to create a link to.
- Once you have uploaded your file/image > Click on it in the library.
- If you look on the right side of the image, you will see ‘Copy Link’. Select the link in this field and copy it.
- If you do not see this window, but a menu on the right side opens > Click on ‘More Details‘ > Scroll down and you will see the link there.
- Then open the page in Elementor, in which you want to edit/paste the link to this media/file.
- Insert the URL of the image, like you would when linking to an external website.