Chapter 4. Linking Text and Documents

In this lesson, you will learn how to use HTML’s most valuable feature: hyperlinks.

What Is a URL?

Ask anyone and they’ll tell you that (far and away) the feature that makes HTML so worthwhile is the ability to hyperlink from one place to another. All Web pages, Internet resources, files, and so on, have an address. That address is known as a Uniform Resource Locator, or URL. Before you can link to another page (or resource), you have to know its address. You can find the URL for any resource in the Address box (or Location box) of your browser.

Hyperlink

Hyperlink

The text that enables you to jump from a Web document to ...

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