What (who) is hyperlinks - definition

REFERENCE TO DATA THAT THE READER CAN DIRECTLY FOLLOW EITHER BY CLICKING, TAPPING, OR HOVERING

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hyperlink

(hyperlinks, hyperlinking hyperlinked)

In an HTML document, a hyperlink is a link to another part of the document or to another document. Hyperlinks are shown as words with a line under them. (COMPUTING)

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If a document or file is hyperlinked, it contains hyperlinks. (COMPUTING)

The database is fully hyperlinked both within the database and to thousands of external links.

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Hyperlink

In computing, a hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference to data that the user can follow by clicking or tapping. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink

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Hyperlink

In computing, a hyperlink, or simply a link, is a digital reference to data that the user can follow or be guided to by 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.

The document containing a hyperlink is known as its source document. For example, in an online reference work such as Wikipedia or Google, many words and terms in the text are hyperlinked to definitions of those terms. Hyperlinks are often used to implement reference mechanisms such as tables of contents, footnotes, bibliographies, indexes, letters, and glossaries.

In some hypertext, hyperlinks can be bidirectional: they can be followed in two directions, so both ends act as anchors and as targets. More complex arrangements exist, such as many-to-many links.

The effect of following a hyperlink may vary with the hypertext system and may sometimes depend on the link itself; for instance, on the World Wide Web most hyperlinks cause the target document to replace the document being displayed, but some are marked to cause the target document to open in a new window (or, perhaps, in a new tab). Another possibility is transclusion, for which the link target is a document fragment that replaces the link anchor within the source document. Not only persons browsing the document may follow hyperlinks. These hyperlinks may also be followed automatically by programs. A program that traverses the hypertext, following each hyperlink and gathering all the retrieved documents is known as a Web spider or crawler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink

Pronunciation examples for hyperlinks

1. Little hyperlinks.

Too Big to Know _ David Weinberger _ Talks at Google

2. Hyperlinks-- hyperlinks are sort of the thing that

Selfish Accessibility _ Adrian Roselli _ Talks at Google

3. because of hyperlinks.

Too Big to Know _ David Weinberger _ Talks at Google

4. around using hyperlinks.

The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling _ Meathead Goldwyn _ Talks at Google

5. follow hyperlinks, for example.

The Village Effect _ Susan Pinker _ Talks at Google

Examples of use of hyperlinks

1. Many fields have hyperlinks and are cross–linked to other relevant information in Zawya’s various sections.

2. The web sites for the other three courts contained months–old news and mostly dead hyperlinks.

3. In this era, it believes (with almost everyone in the internet industry), content will no longer be generated by a few large, wealthy firms, but by users themselves, through their photo and video blogs, podcasts, hyperlinks and so on.

4. Thus far, search engines and hyperlinks, those underlined words or phrases that when clicked take you to a new web page, have turned the online literary voyage into a kind of U–pick island–hop.

5. Thus far, search engines and hyperlinks, those underlined words or phrases that when clicked take you to a new Web page, have turned the online literary voyage into a kind of U–pick island–hop.