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what are the uses of hyperlinks?
It can be used as link to Web sites, to other existing documents, to a document that doesn't yet exist,
to another place in the current document or to an e-mail message.
hyperlink is a graphic or a piece of text in an nternet document that can connect readers to
another webpage, or another portion of a document. Web users will usually find at least
one hyperlink on every webpage. The most simple form of these is called embedded text or an
embedded link.
n this instance, a hyperlink will show up as a single word or group of words that will usually be
marked as underlined, and are frequently blue in color. Clicking on the hyperlinkmay take one to
another part of the page, or it may open another nternet page.
The HTML code for a hyperlink is relatively simple. t looks like this: <a href
="www.wisegeek.com">wiseGEEK</a> which will display like this: wiseGEEK. Clicking on
this hyperlink will send the web surfer to wiseGEEK's homepage. The code is easy to duplicate. t
always begins as <a href=. This is followed by the uniform resource locator (URL), that is, the
webpage address that you want the link to take the web surfer to. The URL is surrounded by
quotation marks. Next, comes another >, then the word that serves as the hyperlink and finally, </a>.
more complicated link can take one to a specific place in a document. t can either be text or
graphic. t may also be a blank area on a screen that performs functions when one clicks on it. There
are numerous uses for the hyperlink, and constantly more being discovered.