Links

Links

One of the features that makes the World-Wide Web so powerful is the capability of linking different pages of information together. In HTML, this feature is implemented by the anchor tag "a." For example, the code

This is a sample link to the 
<a href="/">Department 
of Mathematics</a> at Texas A&amp;M University.

is formatted by your browser like this:

This is a sample link to the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M University.

The text between the start and end "a" tags is typically displayed by the browser in color or underlined. When the user selects the link (typically by clicking the mouse on it), the browser fetches the file specified by the href attribute.

It is also possible to link to a named location in the middle of a document. For example, the code

Consult the NCSA documentation for <a href="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html#LI2">more information about links.</a>

makes a link to the section named LI2 in the document with URL http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html.

Your browser formats this code as follows:

Consult the NCSA documentation for more information about links.

The hash mark # indicates a link to a named section of a document. You can name a location of your own home page by code like this:

<a name="target">this is a special place</a>

and then link to it via

<a href="#target">go to the special place</a>.

The Math 696 course pages were last modified April 5, 2005.
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