How to work with Linking Pages

To work with Linking Pages

What makes HTML such a unique tool is that it lets authors link the related items of information, either locally within a site or across the entire World Wide Web. Inserting hyperlinks, which use the following basic notation, links information:

A. The HREF reference

B. The visible text for the click able link

The example above shows how to reference a page that is in the same folder as the source page of the link—for example, on your hard disk. The HREF attribute contains the reference to that page. The text that the start and end tags enclose is the click able it to link that appears in the browser.

You can link to any page on the World Wide Web by specifying its exact location with a Universal Resource Locator (URL).

If you use this type of URL specification, you can only access the page via the Internet. It doesn’t work when the file is on your local hard disk.