Page-to-Page Navigation
One of the Internet’s primary functions was to easily reference research when citing others, with an ability to directly “link” to their work.
Hyperlink
In computing, a hyperlink, or merely a link, refers to data that the reader can directly follow either by clicking, tapping, or hovering. A hyperlink points to a whole document or a specific element within a document.
Hypertext
Hypertext is text with hyperlinks. The text that is linked is called anchor text. A software system used for viewing and creating Hypertext is a hypertext system, and to create a hyperlink is to hyperlink (or to link). A user following hyperlinks is said to navigate or browse the Hypertext. [1]
Note Link text should be specific about where the user will be going if they click a link. Link text should not be simple text such as “Click Me!” Instead, the correct style would dictate that the link text be a description of the site, name, or information that informs the user.
- “Want to learn more? Click here!”
- “See this page about hyperlinks to learn more.”
With links being such a basic and historical part of the Internet, they also have a straightforward tag; <a>...</a>. Any text between a hyperlink element’s tags will display as “hypertext”. Traditionally, this has been blue, underlined text, visually signifying to the user that the text is a link.
The author must include a hyper reference attribute within the opening tag to link to another document. This attribute is signified with href="".
Note # is a URL placeholder.
```html link text `”
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