Links & Tag Attributes
URLs: Part 1
http://amazon.com,
that tells your browser where to look to find th HTML for that page. This
web address is often called a URL, which stands for
Uniform Resource Locater:
U = Uniform because every browser understands it
R = Resource because the web page is a resource
L = Locater because this tells the browser how to locate the page
The Anchor Tag <a>
Now you'll learn how to really make your web pages interesting! What makes the
web an actual web is the fact that you can link two pages together (sometimes
called a hyperlink). Anyone who
has used the web before knows that there are many things you can click on, and
doing often takes you to a different web page, sometimes on a different web site.
The tag that allows you to do this is the <a> tag.
The "a" in <a> tag stands for "anchor",
because you are anchoring something to that location in your web page. You may
have noticed that most browsers display an anchor by underlining it and making
it a different color, often blue.
The <a> tag is a container tag and what goes inside it is
the text that you want someone reading your page to be able to click on. But
there's something missing! How do you tell the browser the URL of the page
where you want your reader to go when he or she clicks on the link? HTML allows
you to give the
browser extra information about a tag in the form of
attributes.