How to put a clickable link into a message

For this you don't even need any special HTML input format. The default Filtered HTML already allows the HTML <a ...> tag, which is all we need.

The syntax for a link is as follows:
<a href="put the destination web address (URL) here">put the clickable text here</a>
Here is a simple example:
To get to the elephanttrust.org web site, please click here.
The code to achieve this is:
To get to the elephanttrust.org web site,
<a href="http://elephanttrust.org/">please click here</a>.

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