How To Put/Insert/make a Link in a Web Page or Site

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:14:18 EST

The anchor tags <A> and </A> are used toactivate hypertext linking. The text placed between these tags will be visiblein your page and is formatted differently.

When a reader clicks on theformatted linked text, they are taken to the page that is defined in theopening tag's HREF (Hypertext REFerence) attribute - this identifies the URL ofthe file that the link points to.

Linking a web page inyou computer
To link to the page 3 on your site in your computer usingweb site building application (notepad) use the following format

<A HREF="page3.htm">click here to go to page3</A>
Save your changes and view the page in your browser. Youwill not that the text "click here to go to page 3" are now marked as a linkwith a different color. Click on the link to go to page 3.

Linking to other websites
You can also link websites pages elsewhere on the WWW, suchas the homepage of TRCB.com. In this case, you simply give the URL of the pagein the <A> tag. Eg

<A HREF=<"http://www.TRCB. com">Linkto TRCB home</A>

Linking within webpage or documents
Till now we have linked from one page to another, it is alsopossible to link within the webpage to another point on the same page or specificpoint within another document.

Note also that anchor names are case sensitive - typeexactly the same.

To create the anchor:
<A NAME="anchorName">Anchored text</A>
To link the anchor from within the same page:
<A HREF=#anchorName>link to anchored text</A>
To link to anchor from another document:

<A HREF="filename.htm#anchorName">Link to anchoredtext</A>

Linking to Photos orfiles
Generally , the web browser will assume the file is in thecurrent directory/folder. You can use relative or absolute pathnames if file isin another directory/folder.

To link link photo or file in root directory:
SRC="../picture/photoname.gif" or use full pathnameSRC="C:\Picture/photoName.jpg"

To link a Photo on the web:
SRC=<"http://www.photobucket/photoName. com">

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How To Put/Insert/make a Link in a Web Page or Site