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Learn how to create and customize hyperlinks on web pages. Understand hyperlink types, colors, image links, email links, and absolute linking. Improve user experience with enhanced webpage interactions.
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Adding Hyperlinks To a Web Page
Hyperlink and Its Add-Ons • Main way to connect web pages and move throughout a web site. • Uses the Anchor Tag <a> which is a set. <a> </a> • Must have the href add-on (Hypertext Reference) will appear as <a href=> • The text after the <a href> is the Target or Active Hyperlink & will become the color Blue and Underline. • After Clicking, the link it turn Purple.
2 Categories of Hyperlinks: • External – going off your page (linking) to: • the Net, Files, Other Pages and/or an E-mail. • Internal/Page – staying on your page (linking) to: • Different Sections, Areas and/or Locations on the Same Page
(External) Link to the Net • <a href =”page’s URL”> Word to be linked </a> • The URL has to be the exact address including the http:// example: <a href=”http://www.yahoo.com”> Yahoo! </a>
Coloring Hyperlinks • The browser will use the default colors of blue for unvisited links and purple for visited links • To Set Hyperlink Colors – simply add to the <Body> tag: ~link for Unvisited website (before you click) ~vlink for Visited website (after you’ve clicked) ~alink for Active (roll-over the link) Combo of text, background & hyperlink colors: <body bgcolor=”green” text=”blue” link=”red” vlink=”pink”>
Finish the Following • Exercise 10 & 11 • Project • Project Sketch • MicroType Pro
Linking to Pages or Files(Relative Links) • Relative (URL) Link means - All Pages/Files must be in the Same Location. • Simply type the <a href> and the WebPageName.html or File’sName.ext • Example: <a href=”Marquee Play.html”>Marqueeplay</a>
Linking & Opening in a Different Browser Window To make the Web Page Open in a Different Browser Window: • put the add-on target=“_blank” after the url in the anchor tag. example: <a href=“http://www.yahoo.com” target=“_blank”> Yahoo! </a> • Must use when linking to the Net
Hyperlink using an Imageor Image Link • 1st Find & Save the Image. • 2nd Use the hyperlink tag as normal butinstead of words put the Image source tag. • Example: <a href=”URL” or”filename.html”> <img src = ”filename.ext”> </a> • There will be a Blue Border to show this image is a hyperlink.
Image Link Cont’ • To remove the border, add-on border = 0 to the <img src> <a href = “image’s URL”> <img src = “imagename.jpg” border =0> </a> • Thumbnail is Smaller-Sized Image that links to a larger-sized image
Link to an E-mail • Automatically launch the user’s e-mail application, open a new outgoing message and address it to a specific email. • Uses mailto: along with your email address Such as <a href =”mailto:emailURL”> email address or word to be linked </a> • example: <a href=“mailto:me@yahoo.com”> e-mail me@yahoo.com </a>
Absolute Linking • Means your files and/or your folders don’t have to be in the same location because you will tell the computer where to find them by giving the “Exact” Location. This type of linking requires: • the Drive’s Name (a:\ or c:\ or e:\ or f:\), • the Folder’s NameAND • the Web Page.html or Filename.ext
drive webpage folder Absolute Linking Cont’Appearance • Each are followed by \ <a href=”a:\Picture\Image1.html”> Me </a>
Don’t Forget to Combine When Possible <body bgcolor=”green” text=”blue” link=”red”vlink=”pink”>