Dreamweaver

Linking files and documents

Before creating a link, make sure you understand how absolute, document-relative, and site root–relative paths work. You can create several types of links in a document:

  • A link to another document or to a file, such as a graphic, movie, PDF, or sound file.

  • A named anchor link, which jumps to a specific location in a document.

  • An e‑mail link, which creates a new blank e‑mail message with the recipient’s address already filled in.

  • Null and script links, which you use to attach behaviors to an object or to create a link that executes JavaScript code.

You can use the Property inspector and the Point-To-File icon to create links from an image, an object, or text to another document or file.

Dreamweaver creates the links to other pages in your site using document-relative paths. You can also tell Dreamweaver to create new links using site root–relative paths.

Important: Always save a new file before creating a document-relative path; a document-relative path is not valid without a definite starting point. If you create a document-relative path before saving the file, Dreamweaver temporarily uses an absolute path beginning with file:// until the file is saved; when you save the file, Dreamweaver converts the file:// path to a relative path.

For a tutorial on creating links, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0149.