Links and References in HTML

This options permits the user to create links and references in their document. The whole point behind HTML's existence is to allow networked hypertext. The tag used for HTML is A which stands for Anchor. The format is the following :

• Start with the directive
• The parameter HREF = ``document.html''
• If the document has a reference the parameter is : HREF = ``document.html#reference''
• If the reference is in the same file you can omit the name of the file. Thus HREF = ``#reference''.
• Close the bracket >
• Text that should show up as the hypertext link
• End by giving the ending tag

This is made simple by ASHE. Following these steps.

• Select with the mouse the text that is going to be the hypertext link
• Click on the Link option under the HTML menu or use the Link push button. A Link Window is shown as in Figure 6.
• You can enter the name of the file that you want to point to and you also can enter the name of the reference.
• Once the Ok button is pressed, the link is automatically created for the selected text.
• You can delete the link using the command undo.

  
Figure 6: Link Dialog Window

If the file that you want to access is in different host domain, you should use URL as the name of the file.

The structure of a Universal Resource Location (URL) is similar to:

where the possible resource types include: file, http, news, gopher, telnet and wais, and the colon followed by the TCP port number is optional.

To create a reference in your document, just select the reference option and a Dialog window asks for the name that you want to give to the reference. The reference is set under this format