HyperLinks or Anchors

Links or HyperLinks

HyperLinks are basically pointers to other information on the World Wide Web. The other sites might be a file in the same directory, in Japan or anywhere in the world. The syntax varies a little depending on what kind of connection is required to visit the proposed site.

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. A URL, basically, is a way to tell your web browser (or other program) where to look for something. If you wanted to make a hypertext link to a page, you would need its URL.

For Example: the URL for TRIO is http://www.usd.edu/trio
To make the actual link to this page, you would see something like this:
TRIO, which is accomplished with the following HTML code.

<a Href="http://www.usd.edu/trio">TRIO</a>

These are the color attributes you can have within the BODY tag itself to differentiate between the following

BGCOLOR	Indicates the background color
TEXT	Color of displayed text
LINK	Color of an hyperlink within the page
VLINK	Color of visited hyperlink
ALINK	Color of hyperlink when clicked on or select

Example of setting an anchor
defines a target location within a current document

Example Anchor: top of page
takes you to top of current page

Example Anchor: Example above
takes you to defining anchors above

Example Index: Start
takes you to the beginning of this tutorial

WWW example:USD Home
takes you to USD's home page

Mail example:Send me a comment
invokes the e-mail portion of your browser

Gopher example:Gopher at USD
visits USD's gopher site

Example telnet: Telnet to USD
visits a telnet site - requires telnet client software

Example news group: puzzles newsgroup
visits a newsgroup

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