Going Straight to Any Web Address

Before you can jump to a page by entering its address, you must find the place in your browser provided for typing addresses. The term used to describe this area varies from browser to browser, but to keep things simple, I'll just call it the address box. Figure 4.4 shows the toolbar area of Internet Explorer, with the address box containing an address.

Figure 4.4. In most graphical browsers, you'll see an address box in the toolbar area where you type an address to go to a particular Web page or site.

In both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, you'll see the address box as a long text box somewhere in ...

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