click here

Link call-to-action

Click here is a standard web interface instruction directing users to select a hyperlink, typically with a mouse.

The phrase became ubiquitous in early web design but is now considered poor practice—accessibility guidelines recommend describing where the link leads rather than how to activate it.

For more information, click here still appears everywhere despite decades of advice against it.

Related

press · cursor · mouse · pointer · website · URL · redirect · call to action · buy now · navigate · blue · underline · arrow · download · subscribe · spam · email scam · popup

Categories
Opposites
interactivity

click hereplain text

Unencoded readable characters

read-only · dead link · greyed out · body text · body copy

user action direction

click hereskip

To deliberately exclude

go back · stop · exit · do nothing · ignore

Family

click, here, clicks, clicked, clicking, clicker, clickers

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G