One of the most important XHTML features is the hyperlink, which references (or links to) other resources, such as XHTML documents and images. In XHTML, both text and images can act as hyperlinks. Web browsers typically underline text hyperlinks and color their text blue by default, so that users can distinguish hyperlinks from plain text. In Fig. J.3, we create text hyperlinks to four different Web sites. Line 17 introduces the tag. Browsers typically display text marked up with in a bold font.
Figure J.3. Linking to other Web pages.
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"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 9 10
Links are created using the a (anchor) element. Line 21 defines a hyperlink that links the text Deitel to the URL assigned to attribute href, which specifies the location of a linked resource, such as a Web page, a file or an e-mail address. This particular anchor element links to a Web page located at http://www.deitel.com. When a URL does not indicate a specific document on the Web site, the Web server returns a default Web page. This page often is called index.html; however, most Web servers can be configured to use any file as the default Web page for the site. (Open http://www.deitel.com in one browser window and http://www.deitel.com/index.html in a second browser window to confirm that they are identical.) If the Web server cannot locate a requested document, the server returns an error indication to the Web browser, and the browser displays an error message to the user.
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Anchors can link to e-mail addresses through a mailto: URL. When someone clicks this type of anchored link, most browsers launch the default e-mail program (e.g., Outlook Express) to enable the user to write an e-mail message to the linked address. Figure J.4 demonstrates this type of anchor.
Figure J.4. Linking to an e-mail address.
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"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 9 10
1 "1.0"?> 2 "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" 3 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> 4 5 6 7 8 |
Adding e-mail hyperlinks 11 12 13 | 14 15
My email address is 16 <a href="</span"> "mailto:deitel@deitel.com"> 17 deitel@deitel.com 18 </a> 19 . Click the address and your browser will 20 open an e-mail message and address it to me. 21 22 23 |
Lines 1719 contain an e-mail link. The form of an e-mail anchor is <a href="mailto:</tt><span>emailaddress</span><tt>">...</a>. In this case, we link to the e-mail address deitel@deitel.com.
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Introduction to Computers, the Internet and World Wide Web
Introduction to C++ Programming
Introduction to Classes and Objects
Control Statements: Part 1
Control Statements: Part 2
Functions and an Introduction to Recursion
Arrays and Vectors
Pointers and Pointer-Based Strings
Classes: A Deeper Look, Part 1
Classes: A Deeper Look, Part 2
Operator Overloading; String and Array Objects
Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance
Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism
Templates
Stream Input/Output
Exception Handling
File Processing
Class string and String Stream Processing
Web Programming
Searching and Sorting
Data Structures
Bits, Characters, C-Strings and structs
Standard Template Library (STL)
Other Topics
Appendix A. Operator Precedence and Associativity Chart
Appendix B. ASCII Character Set
Appendix C. Fundamental Types
Appendix D. Number Systems
Appendix E. C Legacy Code Topics
Appendix F. Preprocessor
Appendix G. ATM Case Study Code
Appendix H. UML 2: Additional Diagram Types
Appendix I. C++ Internet and Web Resources
Appendix J. Introduction to XHTML
Appendix K. XHTML Special Characters
Appendix L. Using the Visual Studio .NET Debugger
Appendix M. Using the GNU C++ Debugger
Bibliography