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Link

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/lɪŋk/nounCore term

In software engineering, link means: Clickable text or an image that takes the user to another page or place, created in HTML with the a element and its href attribute.

In Turkish: bağlantı, link

How it is used

Also a verb: 'link to the pricing page'. Developers talk about internal and external links, broken links and link text; the full word 'hyperlink' appears mostly in formal writing.

Example sentences

  1. There are twelve broken links in the old blog posts.

  2. Use a link for navigation and a button for actions.

Common collocations

  • broken link
  • internal link
  • link text
  • click a link
  • link to a page
  • URLUniform Resource Locator: the full address of a page or file on the web, such as https://example.com/blog?page=2.
  • attributeExtra information written inside an opening HTML tag as a name and a value, such as href in a link or alt in an image.
  • SEOSearch Engine Optimization: work that helps a site's pages to be found, understood and shown higher in search engines such as Google.
  • keyboard navigationUsing a site with the keyboard only, moving between links, buttons and fields with Tab and activating them with Enter or Space.

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