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Inserting Links

Absolute Links

Absolute links give the full World Wide Web address of the page they are linking to. This means that your page will find it no matter where it is.

To insert an absolute link, select the text on your page you wish to link, and type the full URL (beginning with "http://") in the Link box of the Text Properties panel. Press the Enter key.

OR

1. In the Common tab of the Insert toolbar, click the Hyperlink icon. The Hyperlink dialog box will open.
2. In the Text box, type the text you want to link.
3. In the Link box, type the full URL (beginning with "http://")
4. (Optional) In the Target box, select _blank to have the link open in a new page.
5. (Optional) If you have several instances of the same linked text on your page (such as Ebscohost, which some use to point to several different databases), put descriptive information in the Title box.
6. Click OK to insert the link.

Relative Links

Relative links refer to a linked page by its position in the web folder relative to the page on which the link sits. You can use relative links to point to other pages in your personal web folder. The advantage of doing this in a Dreamweaver site is that if you delete a page, change its name, or move it, Dreamweaver will ask if you want the links on other pages that reference it changed.

If you're good at visualizing the structure of your site and understand how to use ../, you can insert a relative link using the same method as for absolute links.

OR

Select the text you want to link, then grab the little target icon to the right of the Link box in the Text Properties panel, and drag it over to the page you want to link to in the Site panel.

Insert an E-mail Link

1. In the Common tab of the Insert toolbar, click the Email Link icon. The Email Link dialog box will open.
2. In the Text box, type the text you want to link.
3. In the Email box, type the email address.
4. Click OK to insert link.

Remove a link

You can remove a link by right-clicking on it and selecting Remove Link.

Accessibility Tips

• Accessibility checkers such as WebXact (supercedes Bobby) or WAVE may complain that your "links need to be separated by more than whitespace." Acceptable link separators include non-linked text and the beginning of a new list item. Try inserting a vertical bar ( | ), a slash, or other punctuation between adjacent links on the same line.
• Linked text should make sense out of context. Don't use the words "click here" by themselves as a link.
• Accessibility checkers may complain that you have the same linked text pointing to different links. If you cannot make the linked text more specific, try reinsert the link using the Hyperlink tool and insert a title.

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