Head First HTML with CSS

est practices for your links
The title test drive...
For most browsers, the title is displayed
as a “tool tip” when you pass the
mouse over a link. Remember that
browsers for the visually impaired may
read the link title aloud to a visitor.
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The title is displayed
as a “tool tip” in
most browsers. Just
pass your mouse over
the link and hold it
there a second to see
the tool tip.
The Head First Guide to Better Links
Here are a few tips to keep in mind to further improve the fit and finish of your links:
b Keep your link labels concise. Don’t make entire sentences or large pieces of text into links. In
general, keep them to a few words. Provide additional information in the title attribute.
b Keep your link labels meaningful. Never use link labels like “click here” or “this page”. Users tend
to scan pages for links first, and then read pages second. So, providing meaningful links improves
the usability of your page. Test your page by reading just the links on it; do they make sense? Or
do you need to read the text around them?
b Avoid placing links right next to each other; users have trouble distinguishing between links that are
placed closely together.