Working with URLs

There are three ways of working with Hypertext links in HTML documents:

• Specify a full URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for the link

• Specify a relative location for the link

• Specify a Target location to jump to a particular location within a document

In High Tea, whichever way you choose to define a link, first select the text that will be displayed as the link and then click on the Link Button

Specifying the Full URL

When specifying a full URL, include all the information you would enter when openning a URL in a web browser - i.e. the protocol (HTTP, Gopher, FTP etc), the site name (e.g. www.mistral.co.uk/cbuzz) and the document name where necessary (e.g. "High Tea Manual.html"). Note that when including document which has spaces in its name, you should always include the document name in quotes e.g.

http://www.mistral.co.uk/cbuzz/"High Tea Manual.html"

Specifying Relative Locations

If the document you want to link to is on the same server as the document which includes the link, then you can use relative links instead of including the full URL. I find that it is generally simplest to include all relatively linked documents in the same directory as the documents that contain the links. In this case you can simply specify the name of the document as the link and it should work (again, surround document names with quotes where the name contains spaces).

Specifying Targets

Targets are points in a document that are marked so that , if the point or Target, is included in a URL, then not only does the link jump to the appropriate document, but also to the point in the document defined as the Target. You can define text in a document as a Target by selecting the text and then clicking on the Target button. You will then be promtped for a name to give the Target. You can include links to Targets either in the same document or in another document. To specify a link to a target within the same document, select the text to be the link and click on the Link button . When prompted to enter the URL, simply put the Target name preceded with a # sign (without any spaces). To create a link to a Target in another document, select the text to become the link, and click on the Link button. Enter the URL or relative location of the document followed (without any intervening spaces) by a # sign and the Target name.

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