hyperlink
    n 1: a link from a hypertext file to another location or file;
         typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or
         icon at a particular location on the screen

hypertext link
anchor
hyperlink

    (Or "hyperlink", "button", formerly "span",
   "region", "extent") A pointer from within the content of one
   hypertext node (e.g. a web page) to another node.  In
   HTML (the language used to write web pages), the source and
   destination of a link are known as "anchors".  A source
   anchor may be a word, phrase, image or the whole node.  A
   destination anchor may be a whole node or some position within
   the node.

   A hypertext browser displays source anchors in some
   distinctive way.  When the user activates the link (e.g. by
   clicking on it with the mouse), the browser displays the
   destination anchor to which the link refers.  Anchors should
   be recognisable at all times, not, for example, only when the
   mouse is over them.  Originally links were always underlined
   but the modern preference is to use bold text.

   In HTML, anchors are created with .. anchor
   elements.  The opening "a" tag of a source anchor has an
   "href" (hypertext reference) attribute giving the
   destination in the form of a URL - usually a whole "page".
   E.g.

   	
   	Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

   Destination anchors can be used in HTML to name a position
   within a page using a "name" attribute.  E.g.

   	

   The name or "fragment identifier" is appended to the URL of
   the page after a "#":

   	http://fairystory.com/goldilocks.html#chapter3

   (2008-12-10)