Adding links to external Web pages

We create links in HTML documents using anchor tag, <a> ... </a>. The URL to link to is given as the value of the href attribute of the <a> tag, and the "hot" text is between the <a> and </a> tags. The syntax is:

<a href = "URL to link to"> text to use as link </a>.

For example, this is a link to the CIS Department home page. If you view the source of this page, you will see how I made it.

This note shows how to create links to documents on other Web sites. We will not use the full URL (starting with http://) when linking to documents within the same Web site.

There is more on HTML links in our HTML tag reference.

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