How to Link to other Files

You can place a link on your web page to files other than images and web pages. A link can be made to all sorts of different file types. For example, if you have recorded a piece of music and its in the MP3 format, you can share it with the world by inserting this link:

<A HREF = "MyMasterpiece.mp3">Download my music</a>

When the link is clicked on, the browser will see the file extension .mp3 and try to open it up. If you have Internet Explorer, the Windows Media Player will probably be started, and the MP3 file will open up in that piece of software. If the browser can't find a piece of software to open the file, it will give you this dialogue box (on a Windows 9x machine):

As you can see, you are giving the option to either open the file from where it currently is, or saving it to your own computer.

You don't have to add anything special to have people download files like MP3's, or video files, or zipped files. Just a normal link with the name of the file after the HREF part will do it.

And that concludes this section on links. In the next section, you'll learn all about HTML tables.

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