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Creating hyperlinks with the <a > tag. Skills : using the <a > tag IT concepts : tag, attribute. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. . Where does this topic fit?. Internet concepts Applications Technology Implications
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Creating hyperlinks with the <a> tag Skills: using the <a>tag IT concepts: tag, attribute This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Where does this topic fit? • Internet concepts • Applications • Technology • Implications • Internet skills • Application development (Web) • Content creation • User skills
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HTML for this example <a href = “http://www.abc.com/prices”>ABC prices</a> The link text The link destination
The general form <a href = “link destination”> link text </a>
Link to a page on a different server <a href = “http://www.abc.com/prices”>ABC prices</a>
Link to a page on your own server <a href = “prices.htm”>ABC prices</a>
Link to a page on your own server <a href = “products/prices.htm”>ABC prices</a>
Self-study questions What happens if you misspell the link destination? What happens if you misspell the link text? What happens if you leave http:// off of an external link? What happens if you include http:// in a local link? Is href a tag, value, attribute or neither? Is <a>a tag, value, attribute or neither?
Resource W3schools tutorial on HTML links: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp