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Links

A link is something that takes the viewer of your web page or e-mail to another page. Some links are simple and others are very complex. Let's review first:

The basic links code:

<<>a href="url of page"<>>
Clickable words or image
<<>/a<>>

The basic mailto link:

 <<>a href="mailto:youraddy@webtv.net"<>>
<<>/a<>>

If you have never encountered the above codes before, you need to go here.










Moving on to the harder stuff...

Here's how to make a Checkbox Link:

 <<>form method="post"<>>
<<>input type="checkbox" action="url of page"<>>
<<>/form<>>

Here's what it does:





Here's how to make a Radio Button Link:

 <<>form method="post"<>>
<<>input type="radio" action="url of page"<>>
<<>/form<>>

Here's what it does:





Here's how to make a button link:

 <<>form method="post" action="http://url of page"<>>
<<>input type="submit" value="what you want it to say" text="text color"<>>
<<>/form<>>

Here's what it does:



Make your buttons a little "spiffier" by changing their style...this is done by entering the following attributes into your <<>input<>> tag.

 borderimage="file://ROM/borders/buttonborder2.bif"
borderimage="file://ROM/borders/buttonborder3.bif"
borderimage="file://ROM/borders/buttonborder4.bif"
borderimage="file://ROM/borders/buttonborder5.bif"

Here's an example:



The code used:

 <<>form method="post" action="links.html"<>>
<<>input type="submit" value="what you want it to say" text="white" borderimage="file://ROM/borders/buttonborder2.bif"<>>
<<>/form<>>



Here's how to make a Pull-Down Menu:

<<>form method="post" action="http://www.cgi-free.com/menu.cgi"<>>
<<>select name="URLLink" text="black"<>>
<<>option selected="select" value=" "<>> Select a Destination
<<>/option<>>
<<>option value="news:alt.discuss.html"<>> alt.discuss.html
<<>option value="sounds/soundsrealm.html"<>> Sounds
<<>option value="mailto:Titan_Cronus@webtv.net"<>> E-mail Me
<<>/option<>>
<<>/select<>>
<<>input type="submit" value="Go There!" text="black">
<<>/form<>>

Here's what it does:





Here's how to make a "jumpbox"

 <<>form method="post" action=http://www.cgi-free.com/menu.cgi"<>>
<<>select name="URLLink" text="#00ff66" bgcolor="black" size="3"<>>
<<>option selected="select" value=" "<>>
<<>/option<>>
<<>option value="https://members.tripod.com/~Titan_Cronus/index.html"<>>
Main Page
<<>option value="news:alt.discuss.html"<>>
alt.discuss.html
<<>option value="mailto:Titan_Cronus@webtv.net"<>>
E-mail Me
<<>option value="https://members.tripod.com/~Apollo_/intro.html"<>>
Basic Help
<<>/option<>>
<<>/select<>>

<<>input type="submit" value="go there!" text="black"<>>
<<>/form<>>

This is what it does:

<---------insert jumpbox------------------>






Meta

Meta is used in the <<>head<>> of a web page to automatically transfer a viewer from one url to another. This is the code:

 <<>head<>>
<<>meta http-equiv="refresh" content="#;url=http://url"<>>
<<>/head<>>

Just replace the # with the number of seconds you would like the computer to wait until it transfers your viewers to another page. This does not work on e-mails...thank God (that would add a whole new twist to spamming) If you are in the habbit of putting a quotation mark before the http:// this would be a good time to break it...this is a very common mistake.

Here is an example of meta:

Click Here



There's still much more to come. If you have a code to contribute, please let me know.



<---------insert jumpbox code #2------------->





<---------insert jumpbox #2------------------>