The H in HTML stands for Hyper,but what does that mean?<\/p>\n
Hypertext is text which can link to other files, this is called a hyperlink. A hyperlink is composed of two parts, the anchor and the destination.<\/p>\n
<a <\/span>href=”http:\/\/www.google.com”<\/span>><\/span>Google<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n In the example above the anchor tag <a><\/a><\/span><\/a> is used to set an object (text or image) as an anchor, in this case Google<\/span>. The href<\/span> attribute is used to identify the destination of the link, in this case http:\/\/www.google.com<\/span>. This is called an external hyperlink as the destination is on another server. If you were linking to a file on the same server then the internal hyperlink would be.<\/p>\n <a<\/span> href=”page1.html”<\/span>><\/span>Page 1<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The anchor tag can be placed around other HTML elements such as images.<\/p>\n <a href=”http:\/\/www.google.com><img src=”googleLogo.png”><\/a><\/p>\n This would place a border around the image indicating that it is an anchor.<\/p>\n You can specify where to open the linked document using the target attribute<\/a>.<\/p>\n So if you want the Google link above to open in a new tab you would change it to.<\/p>\n <a <\/span>href=”http:\/\/www.google.com” target=”_blank”<\/span><\/span>><\/span>Google<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The H in HTML stands for Hyper,but what does that mean? Hypertext is text which can link to other files, this is called a hyperlink. A hyperlink is composed of two parts, the anchor and the destination. <a href=”http:\/\/www.google.com”>Google<\/a> In the example above the anchor tag <a><\/a> is used to set an object (text or …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17010,73746],"tags":[9201,7754,8786,9207],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-systems-development","category-structures-and-links-database","tag-html","tag-hyperlink","tag-image","tag-img"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n Value<\/th>\n Description<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n \n _blank<\/td>\n Opens the linked document in a new window or tab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n _self<\/td>\n Opens the linked document in the same frame as it was clicked (this is default)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n _parent<\/td>\n Opens the linked document in the parent frame<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n _top<\/td>\n Opens the linked document in the full body of the window<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n