The real power of the Internet lies in its ability of creating hyperlinks. Hyperlink information can be in any from ? text, graphics, audio or video. These hypertext links are usually visible as blue underlines and are technically known as anchors. You can change the hypertext link color to any color of your choice either while creating the page or by customizing settings in your Web browsers. Most browsers have options for customizing the hyperlink color. Browsers like Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator by default show blue as the hyperlink color. This satisfies your perfectly.



Creating Links in HTML Page


Creating a link or hyperlink from your page is a very simple task. All you need is


?The name or the URL of the file to which you want to create a hyperlink
?The text that will serve as the hyperlink.


The Link Tag


To create a hyperlink you will use the it anchor tag. . The tag is mainly used for creating links to other Web pages or within the same Web page. All the text that you give within
the opening and closing tag is visible as an underlined hyperlink text to the user. The tag requires a HREF attribute, which specifies the target URL it should follow when the link is clicked on.



Kinds of Linking


Linking Two or More web pages or Linking with in the web
page is Possible


Linking to a Specific Point in another Web Page


In real time Web development there may be situations where you may have to create a hyperlink to a specific point in another Web page. In this case you are not only hyper linking to an external Web page but to aspecific point in that page.


Linking to External Web Pages


There will be pages where you may need to call external Web sites. For instance, youmay like to include some Web sites that offer free software or contain some other information relevant to your Web site