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�HTML – TEXT LINKS ��

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� TEXT LINKS ��

  • A webpage can contain various links that take you directly to other pages and even specific parts of a given page. These links are known as hyperlinks.

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  • Hyperlinks allow visitors to navigate between Web sites by clicking on words, phrases, and images. Thus you can create hyperlinks using text or images available on a webpage.

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�Linking Documents

A link is specified using HTML tag <a>. This tag is called anchor tag and anything between the opening <a> tag and the closing </a> tag becomes part of the link and a user can click that part to reach to the linked document. Following is the simple syntax to use <a> tag.

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<a href="Document URL" ... attributes-list>Link Text</a>

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  • <!DOCTYPE html>
  • <html>
  • <head>
  • <title>Hyperlink Example</title>
  • </head>
  • <body>
  • <p>Click following link</p>
  • <a href="http://www.gmail.com" target="_self">INBOX</a>
  • </body>
  • </html>

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�The target Attribute

We have used target attribute in our previous example. This attribute is used to specify the location where linked document is opened. Following are the possible options:

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following example to understand basic difference in few options given for target attribute.

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  • <!DOCTYPE html>
  • <html>
  • <head>
  • <title>Hyperlink Example</title>
  • <base href="http://mail.google.com/">
  • </head>
  • <body>
  • <p>Click any of the following links</p>
  • <a href="/mail/u/0/?ogbl#inbox" target="_blank">Opens in New</a> |
  • <a href="/mail/u/0/?ogbl#inbox" target="_self">Opens in Self</a> |
  • <a href="/mail/u/0/?ogbl#inbox" target="_parent">Opens in Parent</a> |
  • <a href="/mail/u/0/?ogbl#inbox" target="_top">Opens in Body</a>
  • </body>
  • </html>

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�Use of Base Path

When you link HTML documents related to the same website, it is not required to give a complete URL for every link. You can get rid of it if you use <base> tag in your HTML document header. This tag is used to give a base path for all the links. So your browser will concatenate given relative path to this base path and will make a complete URL.

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Following example makes use of <base> tag to specify base URL and later we can use relative path to all the links instead of giving complete URL for every link.

  • <!DOCTYPE html>
  • <html>
  • <head>
  • <title>Hyperlink Example</title>
  • <base href="http://www.google.com/">
  • </head>
  • <body>
  • <p>Click following link</p>
  • <a href="/" target="_blank">HTML Tutorial</a>
  • </body>
  • </html>

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�Linking to a Page Section

You can create a link to a particular section of a given webpage by using name attribute. This is a two-step process.

  • First create a link to the place where you want to reach with-in a webpage and name it using <a...> tag as follows:

<a name="top"></a>

  • Second step is to create a hyperlink to link the document and place where you want to reach:

<a href="#top">Go to the Top</a>

This will produce following link, where you can click on the link generated Go to the Top to reach to the top of the HTML Text Link tutorial.

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�Setting Link Colors

You can set colors of your links, active links and visited links using link, alink and vlink attributes of <body> tag.

Save the following in test.htm and open it in any web browser to see how link, alink and vlink attributes work.

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  • <!DOCTYPE html>
  • <html>
  • <head>
  • <title>Hyperlink Example</title>
  • <base href="http://www.gamil.com/">
  • </head>
  • <body alink="#54A250" link="#040404" vlink="#F40633">
  • <p>Click following link</p>
  • <a href="/html/index.htm" target="_blank" >HTML Tutorial</a>
  • </body>
  • </html>

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