The Web presents
information as a series of "documents," often referred to as web pages,
that are prepared using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
Using HTML, the
document's author can specially code sections of the document to "point"
to other information resources. These specially coded sections are referred
to as hypertext links.
Users viewing
the webpage can select the hypertext link and retrieve or connect to the
information resource that the link points to.