4.5. Jump to Other Web Pages

You may find yourself so mesmerized by navigating the iPad with a series of finger moves that you completely forget about the concept of clicking links, especially since you’ve probably been using a computer mouse to do that for the past 15 years or so.

Here’s how you handle links on the iPad: Tap them with your finger.

Yes, just tap the links on the screen, much the way you’d click them if you did have a mouse. As you know from desktop-computer browsing, not all links are blue and underlined. Sometimes, in fact, they’re graphics.

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Tip:

If you hold your finger on a link for a moment—touch it rather than tap it—a box pops up identifying the link’s full web address and offering three buttons: you can open the linked page, open it in a new browser page, or copy it to the iPad’s clipboard to paste it elsewhere. Chapter 2 has more on moving text around.

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