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Hyperlinks

The essential feature of the Web is its links. Any text can form the "anchor" of a link. The browsers render the anchor underlined, in different colors for those links that have already been followed and those that have not.

An anchor uses starting and stopping tags. The stopping tag, at the end of the anchor, is </A>. The starting tag is more complex, of the form <A HREF="your-target-url"> where the double quotes enclose the URL of the target page.

Example: A browser renders the text

<A HREF="http://www.needha.org/">National Electrical Engineering Department Heads Association</A>

as

National Electrical Engineering Department Heads Association

This anchor is "active" in that clicking on it causes the referenced page to be displayed. Should we try it?

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