What is a Clickable Link?
On websites, a clickable link is a highlighted word or words, that when clicked on with a computer mouse, takes the surfer to information associated with those words. A clickable link is also called a hyperlink, and is typically embedded in webpages to make surfing easier and cleaner. Web pages are written in a code known as HyperText Markup Language (HTML). While the code itself is plain text, Web browsers interpret the textual code translating it into the attractive graphic pages we see as we cruise the Web. HTML makes it possible to embed underlying commands in Web pages without requiring the surfer to know code commands or even see them. Instead, HTML creates a “point and click” environment to take the surfer from one place to another with nothing more than the click of a mouse. In Web pages, a clickable link is most often used for one of four basic actions: It can take a surfer to another point within the same webpage as an index might; it can take a surfer to another page within
