Linking to Other Documents

Regions of text can be linked to other documents via the <a> tag which has the following format:

<a href=``filename_or_URL''> link text </a>

• The opening <a> tag has a href attribute that is used to specify the link to URL or local file.
• Text between the <a> and </a> (closing tag) is highlighted by the browser to indicate the hyperlink.

There are different types of links.

For example:

My <a href="index.html">Internet 
Computing home  page</a> 
using a relative link.

My <a href="/Dave/Internet/index.html">
Internet  Computing home page</a>
 using an absolute link.

My <a href="
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/
Internet/index.html">Internet Computing 
home page</a> using an remote link.

They all link to same web page but in a different way:

My Internet Computing home page using a relative link.

My Internet Computing home page using an absolute link.

My Internet Computing home page using an remote link.