Chapter 2. Enhancing Links

We take links for granted these days, but the truth of the matter is that the humble link is the thing that revolutionized documents and made the Web as we know it today possible. Being able to link a reader directly to another document or to another place within a document had never been possible before.

Because of this, you could say that hyperlinks are the backbone of the Internet—without them search engines wouldn't be possible, nor would most websites. Let's take a look at some ways we can make links work even harder for us.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • How to open links in a new window
  • How to add icons to links to identify what type of document we are linking to
  • How to turn a list of links into simple tabs

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