Basic Linking

	Home/HTML/Beginner/Basic Linking All right, it's time to learn how to link to another page. So let's start out by seeing what tag we use for linking: <  A HREF=”http://www.netbiz-athome.com” >Display Text<  /A  > The A stands for anchor, and the HREF=" " is asking for a location to link to. The < /A > is the closing tag. The text between the tags is what will show up on your web page as a link. So, if you would like to link to our site, you would place our url, or net address, inside the quote marks. Our url is http://www.netbiz-athome.com so to create a link to us, place this command on the page where you would like the link to show up : < A HREF=”http://www.netbiz-athome.com/html-code.html” >Making Sense of HTML Code< /A  > It will show up on your page like this: Making Sense of HTML Code See how the text was colorized and underlined? In most cases, this will indicate the text is a link. If you move your mouse over the link, you should see the cursor change into a pointing hand. The mouse attribute comes in handy when a page has a whole lot of underlined text..... A another example, let's create a link to another page within this site .  Which is http://www.netbiz-athome.com/Building-Site-Sell.html < A HREF="http://www.netbiz-athome.com/Building-Site-Sell.html" >Linking to Other Pages< /A  > Which gives us this link: Linking to Other Pages This will work for any page because we are using the absolute url, which means we are using the complete address to every page we are creating a link to. If you have all of your files in the same directory, you may use a shortcut called a "local url". Before you try this, be certain any file you want to create a local url link to is in the same directory as the page you are editing. (In most cases, it will be) Now, rather than typing the full url inside the tag, you can just use the filename, like this: < A HREF="Building-Site-Sell.htm" >Linking to Other Pages< /A > This will create the same link we just did, but we didn't have to write as much. Linking to Other Pages If you aren't sure or have doubts, always use the absolute url. Typing in the full address will allow the link to work no matter where it is located on the internet. Lets look at ADDING IMAGES