Make My Own Web Page

HTML Links to the World

     I want to make my own web page connect to other places! This is where the internet starts to get real fun, not to mention useful. One of the best HTML tricks is linking.

Link to a local page
Link to <a href="index.htm">
   Make My Own Web Page!</a>

Web page should look like this.

Link to Make My Own Web Page!

     This is your first link. This links to another page called index.htm. As you can see, the code includes a closing </a> code. Everything between the starting and closing codes are part of the link.

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Link to a place on a local page
<a name="place"></a>
     First make a place on the destination page using the <a></a> tags with a name modifier.

Link to <a href="index.htm #place ">
   A place on Make My Own Web Page!</a>

Web page should look like this.

Link to A place on Make My Own Web Page!

     The href modifer defines a place within the page to go to.

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Link to a distant page
Link to
<a href="
   http://www. .... .com/ ">
   A different Web Page!</a>

Web page should look like this.

Link to A different Web Page!

     In this example the href modifer must define not only the domain, but also the type of resource (http). The target location may include a specific page or item. It can also specify a place within the specific page.

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