HTML-Lesson 12

Links 2

Use pictures to provide the links

This process is fairly obvious but some of the fine points must also be mentioned. The straightforward picture link goes like this:
<a href=" url "><img src=" url " width=" width " height=" height " alt=" what you want your user to know about your picture " /></a>

Thumbnails

Some people use a small version of a picture as a link to the full sized version. In this way the user can quickly download the range of pictures and can select the ones to be seen in full detail. A point that should be mentioned here is that while a picture can be given different sets of dimensions, It still takes the same time to download. Use a second version of the picture which has been reduced in size, known as a thumbnail.

Blue Borders

Some people do not like the blue border around a picture link. Others do, because it does show that the picture is a link! To get rid of the border use:
<a href=" lesson6.htm "><img src=" gra/lesson5.gif " width=" 50 " height=" 10 " border=" 0 " /></a>

Examples

1. . Link to another site.
   
   
2. . Link to another page.
   
   
3. . link to up the page.
   
   
4. . A picture link with a border (in Internet Explorer only).
   
   
5. . A picture link without a border.