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This page will explain the usage of a Link tag. For explanation purposes, the lines will be color coded for easier explanation. The explanation of each line will be below it showing what is required in each line, and what can be modified to suit your own personal needs.
For future reference . the little dot you see is 1 pixel by 1 pixel : )
<a href="the_URL_goes_here.html" target="_new"> Link text goes here</a>
Now lets see what each part of the tag above does, and how it can be modified to suit your needs.
a href=
**Required**
This tells the browser that this is going to be a link to another URL
"the_URL_goes_here.html"
**Required**
This will be the address of the page you want to link to. Just replace the "the_URL_goes_here.html" with the address of the page you want to link to.
target="_new"
**Not Required**
This part of the tag tells the browser where to open the link at. When done the way I have shown, it will open the linked page in a new browser window. This is helpful in retaining the traffic on your site as your page is still in the background. Once they are done at the site you have linked to, they can simply close the window and continue browsing your site. If this part of the tag is not included, the link will open in the current browser window. You would leave this out when using links to move from page to page on your own site.
Link text goes here
**Required**
This will be the text that actually gets displayed on the webpage. You can also place an Image tag here to use a picture or button as a link such as when you are creating navigation links like the ones at the left side of this page.
</a>
**Required**
This is known as a "closing" tag. This is what tells the browser that this is the end of this command. It is very important that this be here, otherwise anything after this tag on the page will try to be included in the link by the browser.
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