This page is part of the WebCom Web Publishing Guide. It provides a brief explanation of how to create hotlinks from a HTML document to other HTML documents and files (such as video and sound files, graphical images and datafiles for applications such as drawing programs and word processors).

• Why are my hotlinks not working?

Click on each portion of the template to see the definition:

<A HREF="server://site.domain.hierarchy/userid/directory/file.extension">Label</A>

This is a working example of a hotlink: Sample Page.

Substitute your own userid, pathname, filename, and label to create your own hotlink. The code that produced this example follows:

<A HREF="/example/welcome.html">Sample Page</A>

Hotlink Concepts
A brief overview of what hotlinks are, and why they are so useful.
Syntax
A detailed dissection of the template provided above.
Hotlink to a Section of a Document
Creating a hotlink to a specific point in a document.

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