Creating a Hyperlink Instead of a Button
If you are trying to create a hyper link to be used, all you have to do is create the a basic button from your PayPal account under the "Merchant Services" tab. Once your code is generated, click on the tab email. This will give you a link to be used in an email. It will give a link that looks like this:
This creates a basic link. If you are using an application that allows you to insert a link to be used, you can just copy this over you line of code as is, and it will create a hyperlink for you. Some applications when you copy this link over to your text area will pick up on that it is suppose to be a link, and automatically make it a hyper link. If it does not, your customers will only see a line of text that they would have to copy and then paste into the address bar of a browser to get the page to come up. Otherwise if you are trying to add the hyperlink to your code yourself, you will need to add a couple of other things. First you will need to change the line of code to look like this:
This creates a basic link, but now you have to either add text for your customers to click on, or an image. For example to create a Click Here text link, your code would look like:
You would just copy that line of code over to your code for your webpage. If you are wanting to add an image instead of the text "Click Here" this is done by using an image tag. For example the code below would use a PayPal button image.
Then you would just copy this code over to your code for your webpage. If you want to use one of PayPal's different button images you can find buttons in the following languages by clicking the links below.
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