HTML Uniform Resource Locators
The web got its spidery name from the plentiful connections between web sites.
These connections are made using anchor tags to create links.
Text, Images, and Forms may be used to create these links.
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HTML Links
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In an HTML document when you click on a link, an underlying
<a> tag points to a place (an address) on the Web with an href attribute value like this:
<a href="lastpage.htm">Last Page</a>.
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Hypertext Reference (href)
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The href -Hypertext Reference- attribute defines reference that the link refers to.
Basically this is where the user will be taken if they wish to click this link.
Hypertext references can be Internal, Local, or Global.
- Internal - Links to anchors on the current page
- Local - Links to other pages within your domain
- Global - Links to other domains outside of your site
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Internal - href="#anchorname"
Local - href="../pics/picturefile.jpg"
Global - href="http://highprsocialbookmarkings.blogspot.in"
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Uniform Resource Locators
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Something called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
is used to address a document (or other data) on the World Wide Web.
A full Web address like this:http://highprsocialbookmarkings.blogspot.in/p/home-page.html follows these syntax rules:
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scheme://host.domain:port/path/filename
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The scheme is defining the type of Internet service. The most common type is http.
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The domain is defining the Internet domain name like highprsocialbookmarkings.in |
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The host is defining the domain host. If omitted, the default host for http is www.
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The :port is defining the port number at the host.
The port number is normally omitted. The default port number for http is 80.
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The path is defining a path (a sub directory) at the server.
If the path is omitted, the resource (the document) must be located at the root directory of the Web site.
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The filename is defining the name of a document.
The default filename might be default.asp, or index.HTML or something else depending
on the settings of the Web server.
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URL Schemes
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Some examples of the most common schemes can be found below:
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Access |
| file |
a file on your local PC |
| ftp |
a file on an FTP server |
| http |
a file on a World Wide Web Server |
| gopher |
a file on a Gopher server |
| news |
a Usenet newsgroup |
| telnet |
a Telnet connection |
| WAIS |
a file on a WAIS server |
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Accessing a Newsgroup
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The following HTML code:
<a href="news:alt.HTML">HTML Newsgroup</a>
creates a link to a newsgroup like this HTML Newsgroup. HTML Newsgroup
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Link to your Mail system
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The following HTML code:
<a href="mailto:someone@abc.com">someone@abc.com</a>
creates a link to your own mail system like this:
someone@abc.com
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