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Hyperlink

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…

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Links

Uses in various technologies

How hyperlinks work in HTML

History

Legal issues

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Hyperlink

Nodes126
Edges125
Triples89
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015873
Components1

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Hyperlink

Top relations

related to history · 26
Hyperlink → ACM, As We May Think, Autodesk, Ben Shneiderman, Bush, Bush's, Communications, Dan Ostroff, Douglas Engelbart, Greg Kearsley, Hypertext Hands-On, HyperTIES, In, Jeff Rulifson, July, Meanwhile, Memex, Nelson, NLS, Project Xanadu
related to Further reading · 13
Hyperlink → ACM, Cite, CiteSeerX, Harald, Hartmut Obendorf, Hypermedia, Hypertext, ISBN, Proceedings, S2CID, The, Weinreich, Winfried Lamersdorf
related to Anchor links · 9
Hyperlink → An, DTD, For, Fragments, HTML, In, In URLs, The, XML
related to HTML · 8
Hyperlink → HTML, Hyperlinks, Internet, This, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C, Web, World Wide Web
related to Link behavior in web browsers · 8
Hyperlink → Cascading Style Sheets, CSS, HTML, If, In, The, This, When
related to Permalinks · 7
Hyperlink → BMC Bioinformatics, Permalinks, Science, The, Thomson Reuters' Web, URLs, Web
related to XLink · 6
Hyperlink → HTML, It, The W3C, These, XLink, XML
see also · 3
Hyperlink → BacklinkDereference, Internal, Link SleuthNofollow
related to Legal issues · 2
Hyperlink → Contentious, While

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Important terminology

link web hyperlinks document hypertext text html may anchor url user links page target file used also windows fragment pages

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
tables of contentsinstance ofHyperlinks are often used to implement reference mechanisms0.80text
footnotesinstance ofHyperlinks are often used to implement reference mechanisms0.80text
bibliographiesinstance ofHyperlinks are often used to implement reference mechanisms0.80text
indexesinstance ofHyperlinks are often used to implement reference mechanisms0.80text
and glossaries.In some hypertextinstance ofHyperlinks are often used to implement reference mechanisms0.80text
hyperlinks can be bidirectionalinstance ofHyperlinks are often used to implement reference mechanisms0.80text
theinstance oftag can also consist of various attributes0.80text
Hyperlinkrelated to Anchor linksAn0.60section
Hyperlinkrelated to Anchor linksThe0.60section
Hyperlinkrelated to Anchor linksFor0.60section
Hyperlinkrelated to Anchor linksHTML0.60section
Hyperlinkrelated to Anchor linksFragments0.60section

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