HTML fundamentals

Hyperlinks

• Hyperlinks are the most fundamental and most useful ability of HTML pages.
• A text Hyperlink is a section of text that is specially enclosed inside a tag and used to link to another file
• An image also can be linked to another file.
• A link can be made to either external file or to an internal location inside the document itself.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

<A> Anchor Tag

• Anchor tag is used to link a text/graphics to another file.
• The required attribute is HREF. The value of this attribute is the target file.

Internal Link

• A link that transfer to another location in the same document is called Internal link.
• The Internal location is marked by following code

<A NAME="AnchorName">target location here</A>

• A link to the target location is created by the following code.

<A HREF="#AnchorName">linked text /image here</A>

• A link an external file's internal link is created as follows.

<A HREF="URL/file name.ext#AnchorName">linked text/image here</A>