The Anchor Tag: Creating hypertext links

The Anchor Tag href Attribute:

• Turns anchored text into hypertext.
• Turns anchored images into hyperlinks or buttons.
• Takes the form: href="URL" within the a tag.

The Anchor Tag name Attribute:

• Allows anchored text to become the target of some other href.
• Takes the form: name="somename" within the a tag.
• Useful when you want a hyperlink to jump to some point within a document.

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Internal Hypertexting Techniques

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URL stands for "Uniform Resource Locator."

• A URL can be a filename, like "index.htm" The anchor
  <a href="index.htm">here's the link</a> which is identical to:
  <a href="./index.htm">here's the link</a> points to the file "index.htm"
  in the current directory (where this the 'calling' file resides).
  
  
• A URL can be a path
  / refers to the root, or top, directory of the web site. The anchor
  <a href="/index.htm">root directory file</a>
  would point to a file called "index.htm" in the top directory.
  ./ refers to the current directory, and ../ refers to the directory above the current one.
  The anchor <a href=" ../../index.htm">another link</a>
  points to a file two directories up.
  
• A URL can be a full HTTP address, of the sort often given in articles and advertisements.
  The format for these is: http://host.domain.org/path/to/something. For instance, the anchor
  <a href="http://www.pratt.edu/bookstore/bookvid.htm"> books</a>
  points to the file "bookvid.htm" in the "bookstore" directory on the server www.pratt.edu
• Finally, a URL can also be the full address of an ftp ("file transfer protocol"), or telnet resource;
  the only difference is that ftp://, or telnet:// would begin the URL instead of http://