Hour 4. Setting Lots o' Links: Hyperlinks, URLs, Anchors, and Mailto Links
A hyperlink allows the viewer to jump to another Web page, jump to another section of the current Web page, or launch an e-mail application. A Web site is made up of a group of Web pages. Hyperlinks enable your Web page viewers to navigate from page to page. Hyperlinks, in the simplest form, are the familiar underlined and colored text that you click. Many Web sites take advantage of linked graphics, sometimes with mouse rollover effects, to implement hyperlinks.
Hyperlinks help make the Web a powerful source of information. If you've surfed the Web at all, I'm sure you've clicked many, many hyperlinks. But hyperlinks can also make the Web confusing. Sometimes it is difficult ...
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