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Now the Web is all about linking from one page to another, if you have more then one web page, you will most likely want to create links from one page to the next and back again. You can also create links to other peoples web pages.

An absolute link also known as an absolute path or full path is basically all the information the server requires to find the document. An absolute link must specify the protocol such as http:// or ftp://, for example. In our case we will use the http:// protocol plus the domain name, which in our example is www.codenique.com and the file name, which in this example is index.htm to make up our absolute link.

Now when you write a URL, which is short for Uniform Resource Locator, which is a web pages address. You will need to encode non-printing characters as well as reserved and unsafe characters.

Now if you want to specify a title for a link or just want to give more information related to the link you will need to add the title attribute to the starting <a> tag. The title attribute may be displayed as a tool tip when a user places their mouse pointer over the link. You can type anything you want as the title attributes value.

In order to open a link in a certain area you will have to use the target attribute and reserved target names for the <a> tag. The target attribute is not allowed in HTML 4.01 Strict and XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD’s.

What if you want to link within the same document or to a specific section of another document, well this will require two steps. The first step is that you will have to create the anchor also known as a link or target and in the second step you will have to create a link to the anchor.

Now I will show you how to send an email message through a link. In order to do this you will need to use the <a> tag and the href attribute and the protocol mailto: followed by the email address you want the email to be sent to.

The accesskey attribute allows your users to select and activate a link from the keyboard without using a mouse, which is known as a hot key or shortcut key. The value of the accesskey attribute can be any single number or letter even a symbol.

You can also link to your very own computer files or whatever using the file: protocol as long as its on your computer. So it ain’t really useful for the web, it’s only useful for internal HTML & XHTML files so I will only show you what you will need to include for your <a> tags href attributes value to create your file: URL.

Now the ftp: URL also known as the ftp: protocol is used to upload and download files, ftp: stands for File Transfer Protocol, when using the ftp: URL you will usually need a valid username and password in order to upload and download files from a server.

Yeah, I know even more URLs, but it will all end here just let me list the other types of URLs below and give you a brief description of each to end this short tutorial.