Enter a Web Page Address

If you know the address of a web page, you can type it into the browser to display the page. Every page is uniquely identified by an address called the Uniform Resource Locator, or URL (pronounced yoo-ar-ell).

The URL has four basic parts: the transfer method (usually HTTP, which stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol), the website domain name, the directory where the web page is located on the server, and the web page filename.

The website domain name suffix most often used is .com (commercial), but other common suffixes include .org (nonprofit organization), and country domains such as .ca (Canada).

Enter a Web Page Address

Click inside the address bar.

Press to delete the existing address.

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