Establishing Links

Types of Links

A hyperlink or link, is a connection that redirects you to another page within a website, another part of the same page, or to another website, when you click on it. You can assign a link to a text, to an image, or to part of an image. There are different types of access paths when you are defining a link.

  • Absolute reference : Directs you to an external location from the site where the file is. The location must be in the internet, for example: http://www.google.com.
  • Relative reference to the site: Directs you to a file located inside the site of the actual file location, for example: documents/academic/workorder.pdf.
  • Relative reference to the file: Directs you to a file located inside the same site of the actual document, but starting in the directory in which the actual file is, for example: interface.html.
  • Anchors: Directs you to an anchor inside a file, which can be the current one or any other. To do this, the link might be "name_of_file.extension#name_of_anchor".The anchor is defined inside a file through Insert menu, and then selecting the Named Anchor option.

Creating Links

The easiest way to create a link is through the properties inspector. To do this you have to select the text or the object which is going to be used as a link, and then you must establish the Link in the inspector, which will be an absolute reference, so it must contain HTTP://

Another way to create a link is through the Insert menu, and then selecting the Hyperlink option. It's possible to create empty links, they can be useful when you use behaviors, etc. You just need to write in Link only the # symbol.

  • Text: In the Text text box, enter the text to appear as a hyperlink in the document.
  • Link: In the Link text box, enter the name of the file to link to, or click the folder icon to browse to and select the file.
  • Target: In the Target pop-up menu, select the window in which the file should open in the Target text box.
    The names of all the frames you've named in the current document appear in the pop-up list. If you specify a frame that doesn't exist, when the document opens in a browser, the linked page loads into a new window that has the name you specified.
  • Title: In the Title text box, enter a title for the hyperlink.
  • Access key: In the Access Key text box, enter a keyboard equivalent (one letter) to select the hyperlink in the browser.
  • Tab: In the Tab Index text box, enter a number for the tab order.

Link Target

The link target determines in which window the linked Page is going to be opened, it can change depending on the frames of the actual file. It can be specified in properties inspector through Target, or through the Insert menu, and then clicking on the Hyperlink option.

  • _blank : loads the linked file into a new, unnamed browser window.
  • _parent: loads the linked file into the parent frameset or window of the frame that contains the link. If the frame containing the link is not nested, the linked file loads into the full browser window.
  • _self: loads the linked file into the same frame or window as the link. This target is the default, so you usually don't need to specify it.
  • _top: loads the linked file into the full browser window, thereby removing all frames.

Email Links

The purpose of this dialog box is to create an e-mail link. To set the options for an e-mail link:

  • Text: In the Text text box, type or edit the text to appear in the document as an e-mail link.
  • Email: In the E-Mail text box, type the e-mail address that the mail should be addressed to.