Adding Hyperlinks

Time to have some real fun! Let's connect our page to another page. Let's put the text for our hyperlink in its own paragraph. Put your cursor at the end of the closing paragraph tag (at the end of your sentence) and space down. Now, add an opening an closing paragraph tag. <p></p>. Put your cursor between the two tags and we're ready to begin. Let's space down first.

The hyperlink tag tells our browser two things. It tells our browser to make a hyperlink, and it tells the browser what page to link to. The hyperlink tag has an opening and a closing tag. The browser will make whatever is between the two tags, the actual link. So, if text is typed between the tags, then the text will be a link. If there is an image tag, between them, then the image will be the hyperlink.

The opening tag begins with: <a href="
I always think of it as saying "a hyperlink reference" and that's how I remember the tag. We type the address of the page that we want to link to right after the equal sign. We must put quotation marks around the address. We must put the whole address in the tag and it must be exact. If you want, you can copy and paste the address from a page, into your notepad. That way you'll be sure to get it right. And remember to put a closing bracket.
The closing tag is simply: </a>

Note: If you want to link the page to another page in your own web site, then all you need to do is type the page name between the quotation marks. Remember that all your web pages, images, sounds,etc (for your site) need to be in the same folder.

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