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Anchor Tag and Linking

Anchor Tag     Document Links     Document Section Links     Internet Links


Anchor Tag:

Linking is an important part of a web page as it can take you, instantly to other topics or documents. You may link to other documents, sections of documents, documents on the Internet. The anchor <A> tag is used to do create these links. To use and anchor tag in an HTML document you would use the following syntax:

<A NAME="XTOPIC">View X topic<A>

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Creating Links to Documents

 

You enter this HTML command in your current document:

                <A HREF="filename.htm">Special name<A>

 

(where file name is the name you have the HTML document saved as and the Special name is the name you'd like the hyperlink to appear as).

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Linking to a section of a Document

 

You may want to link to a section of a document and to do this, you can set anchors and link to the anchor within within the document. For example, to create a link to a section in a file named Cover.htm marked with an anchor name of "Interests," you could enter this HTML code into your document:

 

                <A> HREF="Cover.htm#Interests">View my interests</A>

(where the (#) pound symbol distinguishes the file name from the anchor name).



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Linking to Documents on the Internet

To create a hypertext link on the Internet you need to know it's URL. A URL, or Uniform Resource Locator gives a files loctation on the web. To create a link to a document on the Internet with the URL http://www.msn.com you would use this HTML code:

                <A HREF="http://www.msn.com">Microsoft Network</A>

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