Links
Links are fun. Links are what makes the web webby. It's the way that all the
internet is connected and interconnected. When you click on links, you leave
one spot in the internet and you go to another. Sometimes the links take you
to a different spot on the same page, and sometimes they take you to a different
page somewhere in the middle of China. It can happen.
Here's one way to create a link:
<a href="http://www.gmu.edu/">George Mason University</a>
When creating links, you have to know where the link destination is (the "href",
which stands for "hypertext reference") and what text you'll have
as the visible clickable link text. In our example, the words "George Mason
University" will be clickable, like this:
Most anything on a web page can be made into a link, as long as it's either text or graphics. To turn our graphic into a link, we would wrap it inside of a link element, like this:
<a href="awebpage.htm"> <img src="someimage.jpg" height="200" width="210" alt="Five parrots attack a helpless cute bunny" /> </a>
Notice that the <a> tags surround the image. That means
that everything inside of the <a> tags will be a clickable
link.
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