What are links?

Every web page has links on it. Single-click a link with your mouse and a new web page appears. A link might be text or it might be a graphic. If it’s text, it often has an underline, or at least it’s in a different color; if it’s a graphic, it sometimes has a border around it. Even if the visual clues of the underline or the border are missing, you can always tell when something is a link because the pointer turns into a hand with a pointing finger, as shown to the right. Just run your mouse over the page (without pressing the button down), and you’ll see the pointer turn into the browser hand whenever you “mouse over” a link.