3.3.3.8 HTML Hyperlinks

A hyperlink is a link (word/sentence/image) that you can click on to jump on new document or a new section in current document.

Syntax:

<A href=”url”> link </A>
herf attribute specify the destination link.

External document reference:

Link will be displayed as hyperlink, and link to another document, document which is present in the current working directory. If file is not present in current directory, a relative path can be specified as the attribute value.

Example:
<A href=” document1.htm”> link to document1 </A>

Internal document reference:

This provides a link to jump a different location in the same document. First you have to identify a location with the name and then jump to that location using the name.

Syntax:
<A Name=”location_name”>
<A href=”#location_name”> Link </A>

Example:
<A Name=”top”>
<A href=”#top> Top Hyperlink</A>