about links and linking

... i thought this cold, nerdy and un-sexy post needed a hot, sexy picture for balance...
expand the post to see codes for the various ways you can link stuff.

essentially we create a link when we use the anchor ("a") tag with its href attribute. other useful attributes you can specify include:
1. title ~ some text that will appear when users 'mouseover' the link, and
2. target ~ which specifies to the browser to open the link in a new window (the default is '_self') when assigned a value of '_blank'

to link text (to another website)
<a href="http://theurlhere.com/">put your text here</a>


to link an image (to a website)
<a href="http://theurlhere.com/"><img src="http://yourimage.url" /></a>


to link to an email address
<a href="mailto:theredmantissa.blogspot.com">an email link</a>


to link to another part of your document (i.e. like if you have a wildly long blog post and you want to provide navigation links at the beginning of your post or something)

you have to identify the sections of the document using the "a" tag like this:

<a name="intro">Intro</a>

then you can refer to that section like this:
<li><a href="#intro">Intro</a></li>

~cs lewis on hearts~ [nerd post]

just taking this hide/show script for a test drive. many people use it in their sidebars, to reduce clutter. susan, aka cruel virgin, uses it in her sidebar ... and so does this powderpuff geek blogger.i wanted to see if it would work the same way in a post. so let's see, then ... if you wanna know what cs lewis wrote about hearts, click on the +/- ... here goes, babe! +/-

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable."