Linking HTML Pages

The real power of the Internet lies in its ability of creating hyperlinks. Hyperlink information can be in any from – text, graphics, audio or video. These hypertext links are usually visible as blue underlines and are technically known as anchors. You can change the hypertext link color to any color of your choice either while creating the page or by customizing settings in your Web browsers. Most browsers have options for customizing the hyperlink color. Browsers like Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator by default show blue as the hyperlink color. This satisfies your web design perfectly. nnnnCreating Links in HTML PagennnCreating a link or hyperlink from your page is a very simple task. All you need isnnn•The name or the URL of the file to which you want to create a hyperlinkn•The text that will serve as the hyperlink.nnnThe Link TagnnnTo create a hyperlink you will use the it anchor tag. . The tag is mainly used for creating links to other Web pages or within the same Web page. All the text that you give withinnthe opening and closing tag is visible as an underlined hyperlink text to the user. The tag requires a HREF attribute, which specifies the target URL it should follow when the link is clicked on.nnnnKinds of Linking nnnLinking Two or More web pages or Linking with in the webnpage is PossiblennnLinking to a Specific Point in another Web PagennnIn real time Web development there may be situations where you may have to create a hyperlink to a specific point in another Web page. In this case you are not only hyper linking to an external Web page but to aspecific point in that page.nnnLinking to External Web PagesnnnThere will be web designed pages where you may need to call external Web sites. For instance, youmay like to include some Web sites that offer free software or contain some other information relevant to your Web site