How to Create HTML Hyperlinks

HTML

HyperText Markup Language: This is like the internet ether's universal solvent. It isn't quite a true "language" in the same way Pig Latin isn't. With HTML, you can mark up English words in order to add qualities to the text above and beyond (hence "hyper") the standard qualities of an agglutinating language. You can add things like hyperlinks.

Hyperlink

A hyperlink is a "connection between two anchors" (http://www.vikont.com/clients/glossary.htm#Hyperlink). The destination anchor of a hyperlink can be a distinct position within the same document as the original link, or it can be another document on the same website, or it can be a document on a distinct website.

To create a hyperlink in HTML, begin by typing out the URL to your desired landing page within the opening of a tag like the following: <a href="http://www.example.com">, then type out your "anchor text", before closing out your tag with </a>.

The above example would be rendered by your browser like the following: , then type out your "anchor text", before closing out your tag with.

As an additional example, the code <a href="http://from-strength-to-strength.blogspot.com/2008/03/definition-1-2.html">zkyly</a> would be rendered by your browser as zkyly.