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Lesson 6: Linking

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   Links and anchors
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Another rich lesson, covering the fundamentals of linking within and between pages, on your site and other sites.

Along the way we find we can set up to send emails from a web page.

The following video lesson covers:

 

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Lesson 6: Links and anchors

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Supplemental materials

    A cumulative summary of the contents of the course so far: Click here

 

Hands on exercise

For those who want to practice using what we cover in this class, the exercise for this lesson focuses on linking using the <a> element and displaying an icon by using the <link> element.

In your index.html, add a paragraph with a link (A element) to point to unirpt2.html. Test that the link works.

In your MyWebFiles directory are two files, roomdate.html and dateroom.html. Add links to these documents from your index.html file, something like this:

To schedule a room, either choose a room and find an available date or choose a date and find an available room

The first link should take you to roomdate.html and the second should take you to dateroom.html. Test these links work.

Add fragments to roomdate.html and dateroom.html as follows:

In dateroom.html include a fragment named top above the first line of the list, and a fragment named next_day above the second day's listing.

At the bottom of the document add a link to To top of page that points to the top fragment, and another link that points to the next_day fragment.

In roomdate.html include a fragment named top above the first line of the list and at the bottom of the page add a link to top.
 
In your index.html, add a link (<a>) that sets up an email to yourself and test it.
 

Exercise stretch 1 (time and interest permitting): add a link (<a>) that points to the file comingsoon.gif; this is an image file and the point is just to see how linking behaves when the target is not a document.
 

Exercise stretch 2 (time and interest permitting): add a link element to barney.ico and see how your browser uses it (if at all).

 

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