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The URL parameter can come from existing URL fields in the data source, or the parameter can be an expression that builds URLs from other fields and functions. The Link Label parameter specifies the text or image to display in the table. To create a Hyperlink field, the Link Label parameter can be from a Text dimension in your data source, or any expression that evaluates to Text The
If you specify an unsupported protocol, the link opens a blank page. If you don't specify a protocol, http: is assumed and prepended to the URL. The Type drop-down menu is disabled for Hyperlink and Image Link fields. To display the full URL as a link, use the URL field type. HYPERLINK ExamplesYou can use HYPERLINK to create a product catalog with pictures of the items sold and links to individual product description pages. Suppose you have a data set with the following fields:
For example: ItemSKUProduct PageProduct ImagePen123https://xyz.com/products/product123.htmlhttps://xyz.com/images/product123.jpgNotebook456https://xyz.com/products/product456.htmlhttps://xyz.com/images/product456.jpgCoffee Cup789https://xyz.com/products/product789.htmlhttps://xyz.com/images/product789.jpg
Creating a data source from this example gives you the following fields: FieldTypeItemTextSKUTextProduct PageURLProduct ImageURL
Example 1) Create text links to product pagesTo display links to the product description pages, create a Product Link calculated field with this formula:
The data source now looks like this: FieldTypeItemTextSKUTextProduct PageURLProduct ImageURLProduct LinkHyperlink
You can then add the Product Link field to a table in your report. This displays the data as clickable links. Example 2) Build URLs using CONCATBuilding URLs with the CONCAT function is useful when only part of the link path is present in a field, or when you want to override or add more information to the link. For example, you could use CONCAT to combine a hardcoded page path with a product SKU to form a complete URL to your product description page:
Example 3) Create clickable imagesTo add clickable images to a table, you also use the HYPERLINK function, but provide a URL as the first parameter, and an Image field, or an IMAGE function with a valid link to an image, as the second parameter. This creates an Image Link field. For example:
Add this field to your table to display clickable image links, as shown in the example below. Image Link example reportThe report above uses the following fields: FieldTypeDefinition1) Product LinkURLURL 12) ImageImageURL 23) Image LinkImage LinkURL 3Links and thumbnail images from YouTubeThe YouTube connector automatically provides links and thumbnail image fields you can add directly to tables in your reports: Hyperlinks are really important — they are what makes the Web a web. This article shows the syntax required to make a link, and discusses link best practices. Prerequisites:Basic HTML familiarity, as covered in Getting started with HTML. HTML text formatting, as covered in HTML text fundamentals.Objective:To learn how to implement a hyperlink effectively, and link multiple files together.What is a hyperlink?Hyperlinks are one of the most exciting innovations the Web has to offer. They've been a feature of the Web since the beginning, and are what makes the Web a web. Hyperlinks allow us to link documents to other documents or resources, link to specific parts of documents, or make apps available at a web address. Almost any web content can be converted to a link so that when clicked or otherwise activated the web browser goes to another web address (URL). Note: A URL can point to HTML files, text files, images, text documents, video and audio files, or anything else that lives on the Web. If the web browser doesn't know how to display or handle the file, it will ask you if you want to open the file (in which case the duty of opening or handling the file is passed to a suitable native app on the device) or download the file (in which case you can try to deal with it later on). For example, the BBC homepage contains many links that point not only to multiple news stories, but also different areas of the site (navigation functionality), login/registration pages (user tools), and more. Anatomy of a linkA basic link is created by wrapping the text or other content, see Block level links, inside an 5 element and using the 6 attribute, also known as a Hypertext Reference, or target, that contains the web address.
This gives us the following result: I'm creating a link to the Mozilla homepage. Adding supporting information with the title attributeAnother attribute you may want to add to your links is 7. The title contains additional information about the link, such as which kind of information the page contains, or things to be aware of on the website.
This gives us the following result and hovering over the link displays the title as a tooltip: I'm creating a link to the Mozilla homepage. Note: A link title is only revealed on mouse hover, which means that people relying on keyboard controls or touchscreens to navigate web pages will have difficulty accessing title information. If a title's information is truly important to the usability of the page, then you should present it in a manner that will be accessible to all users, for example by putting it in the regular text. Active learning: creating your own example linkCreate an HTML document using your local code editor and our getting started template.
Block level linksAs mentioned before, almost any content can be made into a link, even block-level elements. If you have an image you want to make into a link, use the 5 element and reference the image file with the 9 element.
Note: You'll find out more about using images on the Web in a future article. A quick primer on URLs and pathsTo fully understand link targets, you need to understand URLs and file paths. This section gives you the information you need to achieve this. A URL, or Uniform Resource Locator is a string of text that defines where something is located on the Web. For example, Mozilla's English homepage is located at 0.URLs use paths to find files. Paths specify where the file you're interested in is located in the filesystem. Let's look at an example of a directory structure, see the creating-hyperlinks directory. The root of this directory structure is called 1. When working locally with a website, you'll have one directory that contains the entire site. Inside the root, we have an 2 file and a 3. In a real website, 2 would be our home page or landing page (a web page that serves as the entry point for a website or a particular section of a website.).There are also two directories inside our root — 5 and 6. These each have a single file inside them — a PDF ( 7) and an 2 file, respectively. Note that you can have two 2 files in one project, as long as they're in different filesystem locations. The second 2 would perhaps be the main landing page for project-related information.
Note: You can combine multiple instances of these features into complex URLs, if needed, for example: 5.Document fragmentsIt's possible to link to a specific part of an HTML document, known as a document fragment, rather than just to the top of the document. To do this you first have to assign an 6 attribute to the element you want to link to. It normally makes sense to link to a specific heading, so this would look something like the following:
Then to link to that specific 6, you'd include it at the end of the URL, preceded by a hash/pound symbol ( 8), for example:
You can even use the document fragment reference on its own to link to another part of the current document:
Absolute versus relative URLsTwo terms you'll come across on the Web are absolute URL and relative URL: absolute URL: Points to a location defined by its absolute location on the web, including protocol and domain name. For example, if an 2 page is uploaded to a directory called 6 that sits inside the root of a web server, and the website's domain is 1, the page would be available at 2 (or even just 3, as most web servers just look for a landing page such as 2 to load if it isn't specified in the URL.)An absolute URL will always point to the same location, no matter where it's used. relative URL: Points to a location that is relative to the file you are linking from, more like what we looked at in the previous section. For example, if we wanted to link from our example file at 2 to a PDF file in the same directory, the URL would just be the filename — 7 — no extra information needed. If the PDF was available in a subdirectory inside 6 called 5, the relative link would be 1 (the equivalent absolute URL would be 0.)A relative URL will point to different places depending on the actual location of the file you refer from — for example if we moved our 2 file out of the 6 directory and into the root of the website (the top level, not in any directories), the 1 relative URL link inside it would now point to a file located at 4, not a file located at 0.Of course, the location of the 7 file and 5 folder won't suddenly change because you moved the 2 file — this would make your link point to the wrong place, so it wouldn't work if clicked on. You need to be careful!Link best practicesThere are some best practices to follow when writing links. Let's look at these now. Use clear link wordingIt's easy to throw links up on your page. That's not enough. We need to make our links accessible to all readers, regardless of their current context and which tools they prefer. For example:
Let's look at a specific example: Good link text: Download Firefox
Bad link text: Click here to download Firefox 0Other tips:
Linking to non-HTML resources — leave clear signpostsWhen linking to a resource that will be downloaded (like a PDF or Word document), streamed (like video or audio), or has another potentially unexpected effect (opens a popup window), you should add clear wording to reduce any confusion. For example:
Let's look at some examples, to see what kind of text can be used here: 1Use the download attribute when linking to a downloadWhen you are linking to a resource that's to be downloaded rather than opened in the browser, you can use the 9 attribute to provide a default save filename. Here's an example with a download link to the latest Windows version of Firefox: 2Active learning: creating a navigation menuFor this exercise, we'd like you to link some pages together with a navigation menu to create a multipage website. This is one common way in which a website is created — the same page structure is used on every page, including the same navigation menu, so when links are clicked it gives the impression that you are staying in the same place, and different content is being brought up. You'll need to make local copies of the following four pages, all in the same directory. For a complete file list, see the navigation-menu-start directory:
You should:
The finished example should look similar to the following page: Note: If you get stuck, or aren't sure if you have got it right, you can check the navigation-menu-marked-up directory to see the correct answer. Email linksIt's possible to create links or buttons that, when clicked, open a new outgoing email message rather than linking to a resource or page. This is done using the 5 element and the 1 URL scheme.In its most basic and commonly used form, a 1 link indicates the email address of the intended recipient. For example: 3This results in a link that looks like this: Send email to nowhere. In fact, the email address is optional. If you omit it and your 6 is "mailto:", a new outgoing email window will be opened by the user's email client with no destination address. This is often useful as "Share" links that users can click to send an email to an address of their choosing.Specifying detailsIn addition to the email address, you can provide other information. In fact, any standard mail header fields can be added to the 4 URL you provide. The most commonly used of these are "subject", "cc", and "body" (which is not a true header field, but allows you to specify a short content message for the new email). Each field and its value is specified as a query term.Here's an example that includes a cc, bcc, subject and body: 4Note: The values of each field must be URL-encoded with non-printing characters (invisible characters like tabs, carriage returns, and page breaks) and spaces percent-escaped. Also, note the use of the question mark ( 5) to separate the main URL from the field values, and ampersands (&) to separate each field in the 1 URL. This is standard URL query notation. Read The GET method to understand what URL query notation is more commonly used for.Here are a few other sample 4 URLs:
Test your skills!You've reached the end of this article, but can you remember the most important information? You can find some further tests to verify that you've retained this information before you move on — see Test your skills: Links. SummaryThat's it for links, for now anyway! You'll return to links later on in the course when you start to look at styling them. Next up for HTML, we'll return to text semantics and look at some more advanced/unusual features that you'll find useful — Advanced text formatting is your next stop. Wie mache ich einen Link zum Hyperlink?Erstellen eines Links zu einer Stelle im aktuellen Dokument
Markieren Sie den Text oder das Bild, der bzw. das als Link angezeigt werden soll. Drücken Sie STRG+K. Sie können auch mit der rechten Maustaste auf den Text oder das Bild klicken und im Kontextmenü auf Link klicken.
Wie mache ich einen Link zum Anklicken HTML?Per HTML-Code können Sie einen Link einfügen. Mit dem HTML-Tag <a href> beginnen Sie den Link-Text und schließen ihn mit </a>. So einfach können Sie einen HTML Link einfügen und Inhalte verlinken: Der HTML-Code ist: <a href="Link-Ziel">Link-Text</a>.
Wie funktioniert der Hyperlink?Bei einem Hyperlink handelt es sich um einen unidirektionalen (in eine Richtung weisenden) Verweis in einem elektronischen Dokument. Hyperlinks können sowohl zwei unterschiedliche Dokumente als auch verschiedene Bereiche in ein und demselben Dokument verbinden.
Wie verschicke ich einen Hyperlink per Mail?Positionieren Sie den Cursor in einer Nachricht in den Nachrichtentext an der Stelle, an der Sie einen Link hinzufügen möchten. Klicken Sie auf der Registerkarte Nachricht auf Link. Geben Sie in das Feld Verknüpfung die Adresse für den Link ein.
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