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The Magic of Linking
One of the greatest features of the Web is the ability to connect documents together so that users can navigate between them with a single mouse click. They can be documents within a single Web site, companywide, or on the other side of the world.
Text Links
Linking to content outside the page is accomplished using a tag called an anchor. An anchor tag looks like this:
<A href="http://gocertify.com/">Click here to visit GoCertify.com</A>
In a Web browser, the above would appear as underlined text (in blue unless the default settings have been changed by the page designer or browser user), like this:
Click here to visit GoCertify.com
The blue underline is a clue to visitors that the text is a clickable link.
The attribute href stands for HyperText Reference, and its value tells the browser where to go when this link is accessed. Notice that, as with other attribute values, the href value is enclosed in quotes.
The anchor tag requires a closing tag </A>. Whatever lies between the opening tag and the closing tag is the "hot" area that visitors can click on to go to the specified link. Often it's text, but it can be an image instead.
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