| Before we get
into the nitty gritty, lets just talk about what a link
is. As the name suggests a link will literally link you
to another place; when you click on it you will be taken
to that place. I should also mention that the full name
for a link is, Hypertext link, however, most people drop
the word hypertext and just call them links.
So what sorts of
places can you link to?
How does the reader
know its a link?
There's a number of ways -
you can:
Links
Within a Page
(Note if you came here via a link - we're still on the same page ).
So how did we do it?
Well first we had to
create a bookmark. A bookmark is a name given to some
text on a page (the text between the <A> and
</A> tags), which can be used in a link to tell
the browser where to go to.
The code to do that is:
<a
name="LinksBookmark">Links Within a
Page</a>
If you use the bookmark
called LinksBookmark in a link command then the browser
will jump to the text "Links Within a
Page".
.... and the next step is
to create that link:
<a href name="LinksBookmark">Go
to Links Within a
Page</a>
lets look at the syntax
...
The <A> tag
- this stands for Anchor. As you may already have
noticed it can be used to do different things depending
on what attribute is used:
The NAME attribute -
when the <A> tag is used with the name
attribute i.e name="LinksBookmark",
it bookmarks, or in other words gives a name to, a
position in the HTML page which can be used in the
second type of <A> tag. The one that uses
the HREF attribute ............
The HREF attribute -
short for Hypertext REFerence. This
attribute tells the browser where the link is going to.
So in the example
<a
href
name="LinksBookmark">Links Within a
Page</a>,
we're
telling the browser to go to a bookmark called
LinksBookmark which we set up in the first statement.
The browser know it must go to somewhere else in the
page as opposed to another page because the name
attribute appears - name="LinksBookmark".
The
text between the <A> and </A> tags:
well
this is what appears on the screen - in the first of the
examples it is the text associated with the bookmark -
i.e. where the broswer will jump to. In the second
example it is the text that the user must click on in
order to select the link - so it should be meaningful -
we'll see later that it can even be an image.
Clear
as mud? Well you'll probably get the hang of this
particular HTML TAG faster by using it! Lets move
to another bookmark ... Top of
Page .
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