What is a Hyperlink?
A hyperlink is a hot spot in your document that can link your document to another document on your web site or any other web site.
They can appear as text in part of a document or as an image like a button or a picture representing the target. Clicking the left mouse button once on the hyperlink displays the linked document in your browser.
Working with Hyperlinks
You can put a hyperlink that links to any web page on any web site anywhere in your document.
To create a hyperlink from a word, sentence or an image, highlight the object and select the hyperlink option in your HTML editor. You can then type in the file name of the target document.
A text hyperlink might look like this in the browser: Go To The Home Page
An image hyperlink might look like this in the browser:
External Hyperlinks
The target file for your hyperlink to does not have to be on your web site.
To link to a file on any other web site you need to specify the full URL of the site and page. It is a good idea to show the URL as the text in a text hyperlink if it links to a page on another site. This is especially useful if the web page is printed out so that you can read the URL to type it in manually later.
A text hyperlink to this page might look like this in the browser:
The URL above is an absolute URL because it includes all parts of the URL format - the protocol, server, path and document name.
You can also provide a hyperlink to your e-mail address. This link will open the viewers' e-mail program and fill in the "To:" field with your e-mail address.