Vance's e-Zguide "10 steps to creating simple HTML files" Step 7 Linking to documents
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Try it: Compare step 6 with this page.

Concept: Linking to other documents

Explanation:

• <A HREF=... > makes a hyperlink reference to another document.
• The document being linked to goes in quote marks after the = sign.
• The document being linked to is NOT in the same folder as this html document. It's in the one above.
• That's why there is a 'path' here: the "../" indicates the folder just above (and if you want to link into a folder parallel to this one, go back up ../ and specify the folder; e.g. "../another_folder/.."
• The second part of the command tells the browser what to display on the page and underline so users can click on it to go to your link. This is everything between <A HREF=... >here and here </a>

What's coming: Now we'll see what to put in the HREF tag if you want it to link to a URL (and then we're done)

• 1. The basic structure tags
• 2. Putting your document title in the blue bar of the browser
• 3. Formatting text: getting the browser to display text in paragraph form
• 4. Formatting text: breaking the text into lines with line breaks
• 5. Formatting text: bold and italics
• 6. Inserting images
• 7. Linking to other html files in a web project <-- You are here!
• 8. Linking to other URLs on the Internet
• 9. More text formatting: changing font size
• 10. More formatting: centering text and images, and drawing lines across the page