hyperlink

Also known as link

thumb|An example of a hyperlink as commonly seen in a web browser, with a [[computer mouse pointer hovering above it]] thumb|Visual abstraction of several documents being connected by hyperlinks

AI overview

A hyperlink is a clickable element in digital documents (typically shown as colored or underlined text) that connects to another document or location when you click on it. Hyperlinks matter because they allow you to navigate between related information across the web and within documents, making it easy to explore topics without manually searching for each new page.

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Image: Hyperlink diagram.svg

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equivalent class: www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Link
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/hyperlink
user manual URL: developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/links-crawlable

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19 sections

Contents

Links
Inline links
Fat links
Uses in various technologies
HTML
XLink
Permalinks
File based hyperlinks
Internet shortcut (.url){{Anchor|URL|Internet Shortcut}} file
macOS .webloc file{{Anchor|WEBLOC}}
Linux Freedesktop.org .desktop file
link.html file {{Anchor|link.html}}
How hyperlinks work in HTML
Link behavior in web browsers
History
Legal issues
See also
References
Further reading

thumb|An example of a hyperlink as commonly seen in a web browser, with a [[computer mouse pointer hovering above it]] thumb|Visual abstraction of several documents being connected by hyperlinks

In computing, a hyperlink, or simply a link, is a digital reference providing direct access to data by a user's clicking or tapping. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext is text with hyperlinks. The text that is linked from is known as anchor text. A software system that is used for viewing and creating hypertext is a hypertext system, and to create a hyperlink is to hyperlink (or simply to link). A user following hyperlinks is said to navigate or browse the hypertext.