Links, otherwise known as hyperlinks, are defined using the
<a> tag - otherwise known as the anchor element.To create a hyperlink, you use the a tag in conjunction with the href attribute (href stands for Hypertext Reference). The value of the href attribute is the URL, or, location of where the link is pointing to.
Example HTML Code:
Visit the <a href="http://www.onlinetaleem.blogspot.com/">Online Taleem Blog</a>This results in:
Visit the Online Taleem
Hypertext references can use absolute URLS, relative URLs, or root relative URLs.
- absolute
- This refers to a URL where the full path is provided. For example, http://www.onlinetaleem.blogspot.com
Link Targets
You can nominate whether to open the URL in a new window or the current window. You do this with thetarget attribute. For example, target="_blank" opens the URL in a new window.The target attribute can have the following possible values:
| _blank | Opens the URL in a new browser window. |
| _self | Loads the URL in the current browser window. |
| _parent | Loads the URL into the parent frame (still within the current browser window). This is only applicable when using frames. |
| _top | Loads the URL in the current browser window, but cancelling out any frames. Therefore, if frames were being used, they aren't any longer. |
Example HTML Code:
Visit the <a href="http://onlinetaleem.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Online Taleem</a>This results in:
Visit the Online Taleem
Named Anchors
You can make your links "jump" to other sections within the same page. You do this with named anchors.To use named anchors, you need to create two pieces of code - one for the hyperlink (this is what the user will click on), and one for the named anchor (this is where they will end up).
This page uses a named anchor. I did this by performing the steps below:
- I created the named anchor first (where the user will end up)Example HTML Code:
<h2>Link Targets<a name="link_targets"></a></h2> - I then created the hyperlink (what the user will click on). This is done by linking to the name of the named anchor. You need to preceed the name with a hash (#) symbol.Example HTML Code:
<a href="#link_targets">Link Targets</a>
This results in:
When you click on the above link, this page should jump up to the "Link Targets" section (above). You can either use your back button, or scroll down the page to get back here.
You're back? Good, now lets move on to email links.
Email Links
You can create a hyperlink to an email address. To do this, use themailto attribute in your anchor tag.Example HTML Code:
<a href="mailto:onlinetaleem@example.com">Email Online Taleem</a>This results in:
Clicking on this link should result in your default email client opening up with the email address already filled out.
You can go a step further than this. You can auto-complete the subject line for your users, and even the body of the email. You do this appending
subject and body parameters to the email address.Example HTML Code:
<a href="mailto:onlinetaleem@example.com?subject=Question&body=Hey there">Email Online Taleem</a>This results in:
Base href
You can specify a default URL for all links on the page to start with. You do this by placing thebase tag (in conjunction with thehref attribute) in the document's head.Example HTML Code:
<head>
<base url="http://www.onlinetaleem.blogspot.com">
</head>
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