linking pages

[dukxud]

I'm really new to this and i've read all threw the html xhtml and java script trying to figure out how to link two html pages together. I know its prolly the newbiest question ever but it really getting to me and i'm really getting tired of reading chapters upon chapters of diffrent scripts and not getting where i want to go. plz help!

[Ingolme]

It would be in the HTML tutorial: http://w3schools.com/html/html_links.aspJust write <a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>It will show something like this: GoogleChange the URL ( what's within the quotes after href) to whatever your page is and put whatever text you like between the opening and closing <a> tags.

[dukxud]

It would be in the HTML tutorial: http://w3schools.com/html/html_links.aspJust write <a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>It will show something like this: GoogleChange the URL ( what's within the quotes after href) to whatever your page is and put whatever text you like between the opening and closing <a> tags.

yes i got that part but i was wondering if you set up a button that said "next" and you wanted it to simply go to another page in your own site how would you do that?? or am i looking over the obvious?

[aspnetguy]

You could wrap it in a form and submit is to a server side script to process and redirect for youHTML

<form action="redirect.php" method="post">  <input type="submit" name="mybutton" id="mybutton" value="Next"/></form>

redirect.php

<?php  if(isset($_POST['mybutton'])) {	header("Location: yoururl.html");  }?>

or more simply you could use javascripthtml

<input type="button" name="mybutton" id="mybutton" value="Next" onclick="window.location='yoururl.html';"/>

or you could use an image that looked like a button and put it into an anchorhtml

<a href="yoururl.html"><img src="buttonimage.gif" alt="" style="border-width:0"/></a>

[dukxud]

ahhh thanks a bunch man i feel so stupid now gahhh you don't know how long i was stuck on that

[Guest RobinG34]

This all looks very interesting, but would you mind terribly expounding on when and why you would use each of these?I'm another newbie and I'm getting really confused because it looks like there are five different ways to do the same thing in HTML and web design, but each seems to have its own nuance and nobody's explaining the nuances, just how to code things.Anne B.

You could wrap it in a form and submit is to a server side script to process and redirect for youHTML

<form action="redirect.php" method="post">  <input type="submit" name="mybutton" id="mybutton" value="Next"/></form>

redirect.php

<?php  if(isset($_POST['mybutton'])) {	header("Location: yoururl.html");  }?>

or more simply you could use javascripthtml

<input type="button" name="mybutton" id="mybutton" value="Next" onclick="window.location='yoururl.html';"/>

or you could use an image that looked like a button and put it into an anchorhtml

<a href="yoururl.html"><img src="buttonimage.gif" alt="" style="border-width:0"/></a>

[Synook]

You'd use the form method when there was additional data you wanted to pass through, say for a search form. The JavaScript option with <input type="button" /> if for when you want the link to look like a button, and the image one when you want to have link with a completely controlled image (it could be a picture, button, etc).