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Hyperlink: a place in a web document you can select using a pointing device, like a mouse, that will take you to a document stored either on your web server or any other web server on the Internet.
Some common links presented here are a link to e-mail, an internal link and an external link.

A Link to E-mail

This type of links is called a "mailto" link.
It is useful for users to send you their opinion, their questions or their problems with your home page, for instance.
When this link you create is selected, the browser opens up a form for users to send their message to you via e-mail.
To create an e-mail link, use <A HREF="mailto:e-mail address">…</A>.

An Internal Link

This type of links refers to a link pointing to information on your web server, from one part of your web site to another.
To create an internal link, use <A HREF="filename">…</A>.

An External Link

This type of links refers to a link pointing to information stored anywhere on the Internet, for example, FTP, Gopher, WWW, etc.
To create an external link, use <A HREF="the destination URL">…</A>.

In the case of multiple frames, you can also signify the window to display the destination URL with the name of the frame you've already assigned in the <FRAME> tag by using <A HREF="the destination URL" TARGET="window name">…</A>.

Instead of using text to function as links to file names or URLs, you can also use images. This means that your users can click on the graphics to go elsewhere. To create a link with an image, use <A HREF="the destination URL"><IMG SRC="filename">…</A>.

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