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Create Links

Use the Link Dialog


Make a hyperlink:
  1. Select the text you would like to make a hyperlink, either to another web site or another page within your MiniWeb.
  2. Choose the menu Element->Link. to bring up the Link dialog.

Link dialog


Link to a page:

  1. Type the URL in this field, for example, http://www.navisoft.com/
  2. Click OK

Your selected text is hyperlinked to the URL in this field. The text you selected in your document is now colored, italic, and underlined. This is a hyperlink. Clicking on your newly created link takes you, in this example, to NaviSoft's web page.


Append anchor name:

If you wish to link your selected text to a location within a document, you can append an anchor name to the URL in the Link to Page field.

  1. Type the URL in the Link to Page box.
  2. Type an anchor name in the Append Anchor Name box. This is the same name that you give the target anchor, described below.
  3. Click OK.

The text you selected in your document is now colored, italic, and underlined, identical to the hyperlink described above. Clicking on this newly created link would fetch the web page whose URL you specified, at the part of the document where it is anchored.

Typically, you will have assigned some text in a document with anchor names before you create the hyperlink to that anchor, but you can still set them using this dialog box.


Select links from URLs in the Link dialog:

The text you selected in your document is now colored, italic, and underlined. If selected now, it takes you to the URL you selected in this scrolling menu.

Other Buttons in the Link Dialog

Cancel Close the Link dialog box.
Select Only If the text you selected already contains a link, then that link URL is displayed in the Link to Page field and the Select Only button is enabled. Because selecting text by dragging and highlighting is inaccurate, selecting this button ensures that you select only the text that was the previous link.
Browse Allows you to browse your local files or any networked NaviServer for files to choose as links. If you enter a site that you cannot browse, you get a message "Cannot Browse Location."
Relativize/
Absolutize 		Switches between a relative link and an absolute link by removing or adding (respectively) the full internet address to the link's path. For example:
Absolute http://www.navisoft.com/npress11/refer/link.htm
Relative link.htm or /npress11/refer/link.htm
Help Provides an on-line Link Help Page.

NaviLinking

You may get NaviPress to suggest potential links on a server with the NaviLink command

Checking Links

You may check if links you have inserted are valid with the Check Links menu item.

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