HyperText Link

Anchors provide the method for linking documents on WWW. Clicking on a section of text (also called "hypertext") causes the browser to load the linked document or resource.

An HyperText Link is an anchor element consisting of a word or phrase surrounded by anchor tags, the first tag enclosing the hypertext reference ("HREF") or link to the remote document, the second the closing </A> tag. Consult A Beginner's Guide to HTML  for more information on anchors.

To create an anchor, select the word or phrase which you intend to become the HyperText (or "hot") text, then choose HyperText Link… from the Anchor menu. The default URL displayed in the dialog box is the same as that selected from the URL PopUp Menu, which provides a list of all documents in the editor, as well as the master list found on Libraries Preferences. Use the default or type the URL to be used as the linked document into the dialog box.

Images can be used as links by imbedding the IMG tag between the beginning and ending anchor tags, such as

  <A HREF="http://etc.com/"><IMG SRC="myImage.GIF"></A>

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