Regions of text can be linked to other documents via the <a>
tag which has the
following format:
<a>
tag has a href attribute that is used to specify the link to
URL or local file.
<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.