why my hyperlink tags display as plain text on the browser?

Question

In a table structure, I add a hyperlink like this:

<table>
    <tr>
        <a href='http://www.google.com'&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;
    </tr>
</table>

But it display as plain text on the browser(IE or firfox) like this:

<a href='www.google.com'>link</a>

not a link point.

who can tell me the reason? thankx.

Answer 1

Try it like this:

<table>    
    <tr>        
        <td>
            <a href="http://www.google.com"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

Answer 2

Two items. As treaschf noted you need to use double quotes, and for any link leaving your site you need to preface it with http://

<table>    
    <tr>        
        <td>
            <a href="http://www.google.com"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

Answer 3

You are missing the TD element so the HTML is invalid. Pass your HTML through the HTML Validator.