hyperlinks in html

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hyperlinks and anchors

INTRODUCTION

Hyperlinks are basically pointers to other information on World Wide Web. The anchor tag for hypertext links is simple to add your already-formatted pages.

These are the color attributes you can have within the body tag  itself to differentiate between the following:

Ø BGCOLOR: Indicates the background color.

Ø TEXT: color of text displayed.

Ø LINK: Color of hyperlink within the page.

Ø VLINK: Color of visited link.

Ø ALINK: Color of link when clicked on or selected.

USING THE <A> TAG

The basic link for creating hypertext and hypermedia links is the <A> or anchor tag. The tag is container which requires an </A> to signal the end of the text , images and html tags that are to be considered to be a part of hypertext link.

<A HREF= “URL”> name of the address</A>

                       

ATTRIBUTES OF THE <A> TAG

The attributes of <A> tag are:

1)  HREF(link to object)

2)  NAME (link from object)

3)  TITLE(title of document)

IMAGE AS HYPERLINK

To make an image as hyperlink , you use the same principal as the previous links you had created when a piece of text was activated. An image is linked as follows:

<IMG SRC= “img.jpg” > title </A>

ADDING MUSIC USING EMBED TAG

If you have MIDI file that you want to be played when a visitor clicks a link, put HTML code like the following on your page:

<A HREF= “hapbirth.mid”> Play background music</A>