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<A HREF=#branch-name>branch-title</A>
The target anchor is in the form of:
<A NAME=#branch-name>display-anchor-title</A>
General Link Information
A hypertext link has two components, the visible and invisible parts.
The visible part, called the anchor, is the highlighted portion that
you see on your display. The invisible part is the component
instructing the browser where to find the desired resource. The
general format of a link is:
<A HREF=[transfer-protocol][web-location]resource-name> anchor-prompt</A>
Links to Other Places Within the Same Document
The table of contents in this document uses internal links. There are
two components required, the pointer and the branch location within the
document. The pointer takes the form of:
<A HREF=#branch-label>title</A>
The pointer to this section is:
<A HREF=#SAME>To other places within the Same Document</A>
The desired location tag pair takes the form of:
<A NAME="branch-location"><title</A>
The target tag pair for this section is:
<A NAME="SAME"><Links to other places within the Same Document</A>
Links to Other Resources at the Same Web Site
If the desired resource is located at the same Web site and uses the
same protocol, all that is needed is the name of the resource. This
pointer takes the form:
<A HREF=resource-name>anchor-prompt</A>
To illustrate, a file named SECOND.HTM which is located at the same site and in the same directory as the document currently being viewed would be fetched using the link:
<A HREF=SECOND.HTM>Click here to activate SECOND.HTM</A>
Hypermedia Links in Web Space
An external link points to a resource at another Web site. As an
example, my home page link is:
<A HREF=HTTP://www.charm.net/~lejeune>Urb's Home Page</A>
It would appear on you screen as: Urb's home page
Plain Text
Most Web pages consist of plain text, which is any text appearing
outside of an attribute tag pair. Web viewers ignore multiple spaces,
tabs, and line breaks while "word-wrapping" text. You have no control
over the display of plain text. If you desire a line break inserted in
your text use the <BR> tag. To force a paragraph use the <P>
tag.
Line one. <BR> Line two. <P> appears as:
Line one.
Line two.
If text is to be display with formatting retained, as an example a program listing, use the <PRE> </PRE> tag pair.
Paragraphs are not indented, however, multiple blanks
are inserted using a series of " " groupings. This
paragraph starts with two such groupings.
Logical Text Styles
This sentence is
normal text. Each of the following styles is enclosed between the
tags indicating the style.
Emphasized Text Strong Text
Cited Text line break is next.
Physical Text Styles
Bold Text Italics Text Underlined Text
Typewriter Font
Horizontal Rule <HR> is next
Inline Graphics
An inline graphic is treated like a character, albeit a very large one,
by graphical WWW browsers. The format for displaying an inline image is
<IMG [ALT="alternative-text"] [ALIGN=text-position] SRC=url-of-graphic>
Where "alternative-text" is the text that will be displayed, in lieu or the image on a non-graphic browser such as lynx.
The parameter for ALIGN= may be TOP, CENTER, or BOTTOM. This determines where one line of text will be display within the same paragraph.
Align Top
Align Top
Align Middle
Align Middle
Align Bottom
Align Bottom
Thumbnail Sketches
A thumbnail sketch is small graphic display that points to a larger
version of the same graphic. It has the advantage of not requiring
the full graphic to be transmitted and displayed unless the user
specifically requests the larger display.
<A HREF=large-graphic-file><IMG SRC=thumb-nail-graphic-file> </A>
Click on the thumbnail graphic to activate a larger graphic.
The heavy border around the graphic indicates that the image is a pointer.
Character Entities -- Special HTML Characters
These characters are formed using either the
"&special-name;"
or the "&#nnn;" (where nnn is the numeric code)
format conventions. As an example the double quote is "
and the Yen symbol (¥) is "¥ ;".
quot=", amp=&, lt=<, gt=>, iexcl=¡, cent=¢, pound=£, curren=¤, yen=¥, brvbar=¦, sect=§, uml=¨, copy=©, ordf=ª, laquo=«, not=¬, shy=, reg=®, hibar=¯, deg=°, plusmn=±, sup2=², sup3=³, acute=´, micro=µ, para=¶, middot=·, cedil=¸, sub1=¹, ordm=º, raquo=», frac14=¼, frac12=½, frac34=¾, iquest=¿, Agrave=À, Aacute=Á, Acirc=Â, Atilde=Ã, Aumi=Ä, Aring=Å, AElig=Æ, Ccedil=Ç, Egrave=È, Eacute=É, Ecirc=Ê, Euml=Ë, Igrave=Ì, Iacute=Í, Icirc=Î, Iumi=Ï, ETH=Ð, Dstrok=Ð, Ntilde=Ñ, Ograve=Ò, Oacute=Ó, Ocirc=Ô, Otilde=Õ, Oumi=Ö, Oslash=Ø, Ugrave=Ù, Uacute=Ú, Ucirc=Û, Uuml=Ü, Yacute=Ý, THORN=Þ, szlig=ß, agrave=à, aacute=á, acirc=â, atilde=ã, aumi=ä, aring=å, aelig=æ, ccedil=ç, egrave=è, eacute=é, ecirc=ê, euml=ë, igrave=ì, iacute=í, icirc=î, iuml=ï, eth=ð, ntilde=ñ, ograve=ò, oacute=ó, ocirc=ô, otilde=õ, ouml=ö, oslash=ø, ugrave=ù, uacute=ú, ucirc=û, uuml=ü, yacute=ý, thorn=þ, yuml=ÿ
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