Referencing Non-Web Information

One of the real strengths of the HTML language is that all anchors (hypertext pointers), regardless of the kind of information they point to, look the same on a Web page.

An FTP Example

A nice ftp site to use is <A HREF="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com">ftp.cdrom.com</A>.

appears in the browser as:

A nice ftp site to use is ftp.cdrom.com.

An E-mail Example

<A HREF="mailto:escobj@rpi.edu">Contact me!</A>

appears in the browser as:

Contact me!

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