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going further with hypertext
Meeting the “HT” in HTML
Right, that's me, they
call me Hyper Ted.
You're not listening.
I came here to meet
HyperTEXT!
Did someone say “hypertext?” What's that?
Oh, only the entire
basis of the Web. In Chapter 1 we kicked the tires of HTML and found it to be a nice
markup language (the “ML” in HTML) for describing the structure of web pages. Now
we're going to check out the “HT” in HTML, hypertext, which will let us break free of
a single page and link to other pages. Along the way we're going to meet a powerful
new element, the <a> element, and learn how being “relative” is a groovy thing. So,
fasten your seat belts
—
you're about to learn some hypertext.
