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Lab 4.3: Getting Hyper

HTML provides reasonable means for formatting and displaying text, but most of us rely on WYSIWYG word processors for these tasks. What HTML excels in, though, and probably the real reason for its explosive growth, is its ability to make both text and images hyper - so that clicking them changes what you're viewing. HTML links and anchors allow you to be transported to another place in the current page, or to another page altogether, depending on how they are defined. We'll use a slightly expanded version of our home page to illustrate how this hyper behavior is achieved.

  1. We'll start by finding all of the links that are available in Rick & Stu's Home Page. This is easy to do because they are conveniently highlighted for you in the HTML code window.
  2. For each link, find the point in the HTML code where it is defined. Then, click the corresponding portion of the browsed page to see that it behaves as you expect.
  3. You should by now feel ready to add some hyperlinks to your own home page. Again, you are free to add as many such elements as you wish. For the sake of developing your HTML expertise, you should include at least:
    1. two links to points within the page (for example, to different headings or sections of the document),
    2. a link to any available Web resources for your school,
    3. a link to this page, and
    4. a link to one of your favorite Web sites

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