Links are the most important part of the World Wide Web. The i... strength of the World Wide Web lies in its ability to link several In this Chapt Web pages together. Linking is a useful feature supported by HTML that makes it possible to define hyperlinks to other Web pages Z Containing information across the Internet and allows users to gain Access tO any of the desired documents with just a click. Hyperlinks or links, used interchangeably, stand for hypertext links. Simply speaking, a hyperlink is a unidirectional pointer from the source document that contains the link to some destination within the same Web page, a different Web even a different Web site, Behr ers Re Linking is possible because every document on the Web has a unique address, known as the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Links are generally indicated by an underlined text and Appear in a different Color, usually blue or purple, depending on whether the link Object has been visited or not. a link includes an image, the border of the image will algo appear a blue or Purple, unless its attribute iss to zero. In the previous chapter, you had learnt how to create tables and insert images in an HTML doc this chapter, you will learn about other important HTML elements like hyperlinks and fr also learn to insert multimedia objects in a Web Page. UNKING Hyperlinks, or simply links, are the most important part of the Worl Id Wide Web. Links tie Web pages together in a Web site or across various Web sites, A link or a hyperlink is a word, a group of words, or an image that is us in the same Web site or another. When you move the mouse changes its shape from an arrow to a small hand, ed to jump to another docu Pointer over a link, the mouse poite! There are three different kinds of links: * Internal A link to a different section of the Current document Local A link to another page on the same Web site * Global A link toa page on a different Web site Welcome! Click here to go back to the previous page. When you click on the firs link on the Web page firstpage.html, the Web page nextpage. html, whic, is on the same Web site will be displayed [Fig, 10.1(b)]. On clicking the second link, the page www.oup.com will be displayed [Fig. 10.1(c)]. Welcome! (Click here to 20 back tothe previous pase Fig, 10.1(b) nextpage.htm| Top Tip 1. Ifyouare linking toa page on the Web, the complete addres is required. CBSE 2 Hfyou re linking oa page inthe sme director asthe current page, you jut need the page name. MySchoolyou may ‘want to provide an n of the page. This can be e to where the link is to be tribute. An anchor 0" #Unk Targets — The target attribute PY default, links open in the current window. Ifyou want the link to open in ant —— ‘add a target. The target attribute specifies where to open the linked document, Ne Windy, ung For example: S Rref= “http: //wew.cbse.nic.in” target = “_blank”>CBSE This will open the linked page in a new browser window or a new tab. Other values that can be assigned to the target attribute are given in Table 10.1, Table 10.1 Values of target attribute Value Description a3 _=blank | Opens the linked document in a new browser window or a news fab Opens the linked document in the parent frame par Opens the linked document in the same frame elf _=f0P _| Opens the linked document in full browser window Defining Colors for tinks Nou can use CSS to change the appearance and behaviour of hyperlinks. But first, let us leatn ab kinds of links and their behaviour. * link (Standard Link) This specifies a link that has not been visited yet. The default color of this link is blue. * visited (Visited Link) This specifies a link that the visitor has visited. Its default color is purple * active (Active Link) This refers to the link that is clicked. The default color of this link is rec Dut thal * hover A link that appears when the user moves the mouse over it Note: a:hover must come after a:link and a:visited, and a:active must come after a:hover. Now consider this section of code for changing the link colors: