A Simple Hypertext Link

At this point, you have already learned some basic HTML formatting tags. Making hypertext links is just a matter of learning how to use another tag, the anchor tag.

To start with, here is a simple link to a list of my favourite foods.

CFN users can look at the source for this link by pressing the \ key.

Notes:

The word or phrase which will be the link (let's call it the link phrase) is preceded by the tag <a href="filename"> and ended with the tag </a>.
The anchor tag has what is called an attribute: this is the href="filename" part. An attribute is a modifier which gives more specific information about what a tag does. The anchor tag can have other attributes besides href, one of which (the name attribute), we'll see later.
The filename which is specfied in the href attribute is the name of the file which the link leads to. In this simple example, we just have a filename.