November 2002
Beginner
432 pages
11h 44m
English
Content preview from Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition
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Using Hyperlinks
An anchor tag, indicated by <a> and </a>, creates a hyperlink to another page location. The browser that displays your Web page creates the underlined link at the point of your HTML's <a> tag.
The following lines send the user to the Que Publishing Web site when the user clicks the hyperlink:
<a href="http://www.mcp.com"> Get some great books </a>
Everything between the <a href> tag and the closing </a> tag comprises the hyperlink. The four words, Get some great books, will be underlined on the Web screen, and the user can click anywhere in that text to move to the corresponding Web site.
You can even specify graphics and multiline text as hyperlinks. When the user clicks the hyperlink, the page changes to the linked Web page. ...