Is there a way to make text in a google gadget a url link?

May 6th, 2009 Posted in Programming & Design
Daniel L. asked:


I am trying to build a gadget for my google homepage and i want to make the items a url link to my blog but i cant figure out how to write it so that it becomes a url link.

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One Response to “Is there a way to make text in a google gadget a url link?”

  1. Martyr2 Says:

    May 9th, 2009 at 11:18 am

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    I guess it depends on how you are creating the gadget. I am an author of several gadgets for my company and organizations and if you use an HTML content type, you can simply make the link as you would any other HTML link with the “” tags.

    If you are using XML to create the widget, you can also use the “a” tag but you must make sure that you close the tag and use proper XML format standards.

    Now if you are using the simple “Make your own gadget” boxes I do not see a way to add links (except for the title of the gadget) because actually they are very very simple creation tools right now. I think they will get better with time.

    I have provided the Google gadget developers guide in case you are interested in learning the more flexible (but a bit tougher) way of creating a gadget.

    Sorry I couldn’t help further.



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