Linking your pages to other pages can be done with the <a> tag using the href attribute. This makes it exactly where you want the link to go to e.g. a url. E.g. <a href="url goes here"> This is what the link text is. </a> With this you will have the power to be able to link up your pages and make your page have many sites. By default, link will be like this: Click Me!. However this can be easily changed with CSS. Many complexity. Not.
| Tags | Definition |
|---|---|
<a>...</a> |
The a tag defines a hyperlink, which is used to link from one page to another. |
href="link goes here" |
The href attribute specifies the location (URL) of the external resource (most often a style sheet file). |
target |
The target target attribute specifies where to open the linked document. |
The most basic way of linking pages is to use this format:
<a href="url">link text</a>
This means that "link text" will be linkd with the url.
A local link (link to the same web site) is specified with a relative URL (without http://www....) is done like this.
<a href="html_images.asp">HTML Images</a>
Now this page has pages within its own website. Wow.
The target attribute specifies where to open the linked document, which can have one of the following values:
- _blank - Opens the linked document in a new window or tab
- _self - Opens the linked document in the same window/tab as it was clicked (this is default)
- _parent - Opens the linked document in the parent frame
- _top - Opens the linked document in the full body of the window
- framename - Opens the linked document in a named frame
for an example, this:
<a href="url" target="_blank">click me!</a>
will open the in a new tab when "click me!" is clicked. Crikey.
Sithum Dissanayake
@Coding_Flow