So let's take a look first at internal tags. Let's say your web address is www.mysite.com. Now your first page is called index.html (remember) and you have another page you want to link within your site. How do you do it?

      The tag that handles links looks like this:

< A HREF ="pageaddress">Link Text Shown on Screen</A>

      HREF stands for Hypertext reference. Basically it tells the browser, "Go over here and check this out!!"

So here's the code for the resources page on this site:

Which produces this wonderful result: Resources

      Notice that in the address for the page I didn't write "http://www.htmlamigo.bravehost.com/resources.html". Why? Well you see there is really no need. The browser has already gone to that location (www.htmlamigo.bravehost.com/). So all my HTML files are right there. However, if I had another folder which my resources page was in it would look like this: "foldername/resource.html"

The Target Attribute

      Has it ever happened to you that when you click a link a new window pops up - displaying the website in the new window while the original website is still visible? The TARGET attribute can be added in the < A> tag. It has three possible values:"

Try These: Resources (TARGET = "_blank") || Resources (TARGET = "_self")

      The addition of the TARGET attribute is only needed if your target is different then "_self", because that is its default value.

      Some of these attributes need frames to work. You will learn about frames in a future tutorial. In general though the two main ones you will use the most are TARGET = "_blank" and TARGET = "_self".

Putting it Together

So putting it all together the < A> Tag looks like this:

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