What is a hyperlink?
A definition of hyperlinks: A hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference in a hypertext document to another document or other resource. As such it would be similar to a citation in literature. However, combined with a data network and suitable access protocol, it can be used to fetch the resource referenced. This can then be saved, viewed, or displayed as part of the referencing document. So what is it really? Well the idea of a citation is what has created the modern day search engines. Google started counting hyperlinks pointing to a document as a “vote” or referral from the site that the hyperlink was on, to the site that it pointed at. Google then had a way to determine the importance of a document [web page] based on the number of links that were pointing to it and it used the text of the link [in the example above it is the word “definition of hyperlinks”] as one of the ways to determine what topic the destination page is about. This is a very over-simplified picture of a search
A hyperlink is a connection between one page of a hypertext document to another, they appear blue on the page, and are sometimes underlined, but the underline can be disabled with certain HTML. On WikiAnswers.com, hyperlinks are not underlined, but are when you hover the mouse over them. The cursor also changes to a hand when you move it over a hyperlink.
writeImageWD() Hyperlinks are the backbone of the Web. They provide a means to connect one piece of information (a web page, for example) to another piece of information. If you have designed two web pages, a hyperlink will provide a quick way to jump from one page to the other. If you have one long web pages, a hyperlink can be used as a bookmark to help people jump from one part of the page to another, and back again. You already know what a hyperlink looks like on a web page – to get this far, you’ve already clicked on many of them. But what follows is a brief explanation of what happens when you click those links.
