hyperlink

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hyperlink - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  hyperlink
      n 1: a link from a hypertext file to another location or file;
           typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or
           icon at a particular location on the screen

hyperlink - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  anchor
  hyperlink
  
     <hypertext> (Or "hyperlink", "button", formerly "span",
     "region", "extent") An area within the content of a
     hypertext node (e.g. a web page) which is the source or
     destination of a link.  A source anchor may be a word,
     phrase, image or the whole node.  A destination anchor may be
     a whole node or some position within the node.
  
     A hypertext browser usually displays a source anchor in some
     distinctive way, e.g. marked with a special symbol or drawn in
     a different colour, font or style.  When the user
     activates the link (e.g. by clicking on it with the mouse),
     the browser displays the destination anchor to which the link
     refers.  Some anchors only look different when the mouse is
     over them but this forces the user to hunt for them when they
     should be obvious.
  
     In HTML, anchors are created with the <a..>..</a> construct.
     The opening "a" tag of a source anchor has an "href"
     (hypertext reference) attribute giving the destination in
     the form of a URL - usually a whole node or "page".  E.g.
  
     	<a href="http://foldoc.org/">
     	Free On-line Dictionary of Computing</a>
  
     Destination anchors are only used in HTML to name a position
     within a page using a "name" attribute.  E.g.
  
     	<a name="chapter3">
  
     The name or "fragment identifier" is appended to the URL of
     the page after a "#":
  
     	http://fairystory.com/goldilocks.html#chapter3
  
     (Though it is generally better to break pages into smaller
     units than to have large pages with named sections).
  
     (2007-05-21)