"Active text" where one word is linked to another into a computer program; a type of indexing system. (See hypermedia, button, card, field.) (WP, Gr. 6)
A non-linear version of text presentation with embedded links to other information. The basis of the World Wide Web and of the Internet protocols employed on the Web.
A method of presenting information where selected words in online text can be "expanded" into more information.
On the web, text links move you easily from one location to another. For example, go to the site's navigation page.
Hypertext is the text in web pages that contain links to other web pages or documents.
A word or phrase in an online document that is linked to another section of the same document or to a different document. Hypertext words and phrases are usually in blue and underlined.
A specific type of system with the ability to link files electronically via multiple pathways allowing readers to "click" on a highlighted word or phrase and "jump" to a file that details information about the word or phrase.
A form of text which includes visible links to other pages of text or media, accessible by clicking or selecting the links.
Any text in Web documents that contain "links" to other documents. Highlighted words or phrases in the document can be chosen by a reader to retrieve and display other documents.
A special type of database system created in the 1960s where objects; text, pictures, programs, music, etc. can be linked to each other.
Hypertext usually refers to any text available on the World Wide Web that contains links to other documents. The use of hypertext is a way of presenting information in which text, sounds, images, and actions are linked together in a way that allows you to jump around between them in whatever order you choose.
Human readable information annotated with structural links between non-sequential sections.
Electronically-stored text that allows direct access to other texts by way of encoded links. Hypertext documents can be created using HTML, and often integrate images, sound, and other media that are commonly viewed using a WWW browser. See also HTML and WWW browser.
A word coined by Ted Nelson in 1965 referring to text that has been linked; the linkage gives the text an added dimension, thereby making it hyper.
Documents that include pointers, or links, to other documents, pictures or sounds.
non-linear writing where you can click to explore
A term used in reference to text or documents that contain highlighted words or phrases, which link to other related pages of information. The highlighted links usually appear in a different color than the adjacent text material, typically blue, and are sometimes underlined. The links are called hyperlinks. Readers may jump from one document to another in non-linear fashion by clicking on these hyperlinks. The hypertext documents need not be arranged in any particular sequence or location. Further, the hypertext need not be read in an orderly, linear fashion. Instead, it may be browsed in a random fashion simply by following the hyperlinks. The World Wide Web Is constructed on hypertext. It uses HTML and HTTP to link together millions of individual pages. Text on one web page links to another, and most sites link to others. The primary method of travel on the WWW involves the use of hyperlinks. (Because the Web combines graphics, audio, video, and text, it is more accurately termed a hypermedia system.) See also ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT HYPERLINK TEXT
Data which provides links between key elements, allowing you to move through information non-sequentially.
The text only version of hypermedia.
the notion of hypertext encompasses systems which are text based, but provide links to other resources from within the text. For example, in a hypertext system, one might see the following: "The strongest form of electronic encryption in wide use today is the RSA system," where the words "RSA system" would link to more hypertext describing what that system is composed of.
A text or group of texts which may be explored in a non-linear fashion through associative linkages embedded throughout the text. Instead of simply referring to other pieces of work, hypertext references when followed actually take you to the works themselves.
Text or graphical elements on a page which activates a hyperlink when clicked.
The technique of linking documents together through active cross-references such that following a cross-reference takes you directly to the document where the reference is defined.
The computer-based electronic documents that use hyperlinks.
is basically the same as regular text, but it also contains connections (links) within the text to other documents.
A text-based approach for the display of information and navigation to associated topics.
text or other items on a Web page that are linked to other materials located on other Web pages or even on other computers in other locations. Clicking or activating a hypertext connection brings you directly to the referenced material no matter where in the world it is.
Called hyperlinks, or more commonly, links. How information on the Web is connected together. Clicking on the highlighted hypertext in a Web document takes you to another page in that document or to a completely different Web site. Instead of processing information in a linear way, hyperlinks let us get the information in the order that makes the most sense to us.
Text that, when selected, has the ability to present connected documents. ILL Interlibrary Loan. (See Document Supply Service)
Click on hypertext and you're launched to another location. Most browsers underline this verbiage and change colors according to whether or not you have followed that particular link.
a block of text, usually underlined, or a graphic used to link documents. When a user clicks on it, he or she is instantly redirected to another document.
electronic documents that have information that can be read by following a number of different connections. The viewer chooses how to navigate through the hypertext. This differs from reading a book from beginning to end. Need more help finding a definition? Just choose a letter above to find the definitions you are looking for. Advertisement powered by FreeFind Free Information Work at Home Moms
A broad definition is that hypertext is "the use of the computer to transcend the linear, bounded, and fixed qualities of the traditional written text" ( Landow and Delaney, 1991). It is textual information, usually on the Internet, CD-ROM, or other computer or database system that is connected through a series of 'links' often in a nonlinear fashion. Hypertext is a form of hypermedia. Hypermedia topics are linked in a manner that allows the user to jump from subject to related subject in searching for information. For example, a hypermedia presentation on navigation might include links to such topics as astronomy, bird migration, geography, satellites, and radar. If the information is primarily in text form, the document or file is called hypertext. If video, music, animation, or other elements are included, the document is called a hypermedia document. ("Hypermedia." Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2001. © 1993-2000 Microsoft Corporation.)
A hypertext document is any document that contains links or pointers to other documents. No specific hierarchy or organization is implied. The collection of multiplly interconnected documents is called a "web" (rather than a "linear list," "tree," or "data base") from which comes the name World Wide Web.
Hypertext is text, such as linked text on the World Wide Web, that is connected in nonlinear ways.
a system for linking documents and parts of documents in a non-linear fashion. Words in the displayed document may be linked to other documents, or other text in the same document. The reader can follow these links through the text, rather than reading serially.
A system of information browsing and retrieval that allows a user to follow linked, non-sequential associative trails of thought instead of a strict linear structure.
Web site text (often underscored and set in a different color) that contains links to additional information, other parts of the site, or other locations on the World Wide Web. Clicking on hypertext with the computer mouse will connect a visitor to the information or destination.
Text that contains embedded links to other pages of text. Hypertext enables the reader to navigate between pages of related information by following links in the text.
Internet: Direct searching based on term occurrences in the text; the retrieval system will find other text units containing the same term(s). A second form is based on hypertext links that have been inserted in the text. These links can draw the user's attention to related sections even if the sections do not share the same terms and would not be found on the basis of term occurrences.
Text which is not constrained to be linear. (More...)
The linking of texts (and multimedia objects) through references that direct the user to relevant resources beyond the text they are currently using. The links found on WWW pages are hypertext links.
This refers to text which contains links to other documents so that when a reader clicks on those words or phrases, they will be shown the document to which they linked. In HTML, hypertext links are indicated by the words being underlined and, normally, in a different colour.
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Text which has links that allow the reader to browse web pages in non-linear fashion.
A document that contains links to other documents, indicted by text in a nonstandard format. The linked document can be actively followed or referenced by clicking on the emphasized text.
The links within one document that allows it to connect to and display another document. Selecting a hypertext link automatically displays the second document.
Describes a program that provides multiple pathways through text.
Document s with the addition of "hot links" -- words or pictures which you can "click on" (or otherwise activate, if you hate mice) to go to another document or to another place in the same document.
Electronic documents that contain hyperlinks.
A system for writing and displaying text that can be linked in multiple ways to related documents and available at several levels of detail. The term was coined by Ted Nelson to refer to a nonlinear system of information browsing and retrieval based on associative links between documents.
A text-linking strategy that lets you jump between related information in a document by clicking on a button or highlighted word. On-line help systems often use hypertext links, as do some programs designed for the electronic distribution of documents.
A non-sequential method for reading a document displayed on a computer screen. Instead of reading the document in sequence from beginning to end, the reader can jump to topics by selecting a highlighted word or phrase embedded within the document. This activates a link, connecting the reader to another place in the same document or to another document. The resulting matrix of links is called a web.
A computer-based text retrieval system that enables a user to access particular locations in Web pages or other electronic documents by clicking on links within specific Web pages or documents.
A method for organizing and referencing information by associations and links. The creation of hypertext with its ability to instantaneously reference additional documents by "pointing and clicking" on a hypertext link ultimately made the worldwide web a viable enterprise. A-B C-D E-F G-H I-J K-L M-N O-P Q-R S-T U-V W-X-Y-Z
Text that uses cross-references or links to dynamically connect to other, often elaborating, text.
You're using it now. The form of of written communication made possible by computers - although it's been argued that such luminaries as Milton dabbled in a form of it. You click on a link, and it takes you somewhere else. Hence, the end of a document is difficult to define.
Documents that are connected to each other through links - phrases or words of text that can be clicked on with a computer mouse.
A type of document which allows links within to connect to other documents.
A system of connecting information by associative links. The World Wide Web is the best-known example.
a way to link information in one place to another place, by creating hyperlinks
Any text that contains "links" to other documents. In a hypertext document, words or phrases which can be selected by a reader will cause other documents to be retrieved and displayed.
A document coded in HTML; a collection of such documents.
links between key elements, allowing you to move through information nonsequentially. No longer linear like a balance beam, hypertext allows the viewer to jump through information like a gymnast doing a floor exercise.
Text/graphics with links attached to anchors that when accessed go to another point on the same document or to a different document. See anchor.
A collection of documents that allow you, using your Web browser, to easily move between them using hyperlinks.
Hypertext is a term for a document that uses cross-references (links) to allow for non-linear reading.
A collection of text documents with links from one document to another. A "hypermedia" system is much the same but includes different types of documents, for example images and video. Probably the best known hypermedia system is the world wide web.
Refers to the linking and display of related information within the same or different infobases. Generally used in conjunction with link (as in "hypertext link"). See Link.
allows the appearance of text to defined by the author. Features such as titles, headings, paragraphs, emphasis, images and links to other pages, amongst others, are defined using a mark-up language. This can be done either by using WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) authoring tools, or typed from scratch given knowledge of the tags defined for the relevant markup language. Tags, such as html and /html, are used to structure text. The mark-up language used for publishing on the Internet, is HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language).
The method in which information is displayed that can have links to other web pages.
Text or graphics that contain links to other words, documents, applications, or multimedia content.
Text that uses links to provide navigation among web pages or documents. The use of hypertext is a way of presenting information in which text, sounds, images and actions are linked together in a way that allows you to jump around between them in whatever order you choose.
A document created using HTML.
Uses highlighted elements to link related resources together. Method for organizing documents on the Web.
A hypertext document contains underlined words. When the mouse clicks on one of the underlined words, the corresponding text is instantly displayed on the screen. This enables the user to navigate through a large document while viewing only selected sections.
text which includes references to other text. Some words in the text on the screen are highlighted or have a different color. By clicking on these words with a mouse, a new text or graphic appears which can on its turn contain new references. Hypertext language on the Internet is known as html, hypertext files have htm as extension in DOS.
Computer documents that contain links embedded in text or graphics. Hypertext links display related information when you click on them.
Text that contains links to other text, which allows information to be retrieved nonsequentially.
text documents that are linked to one another by hyperlinks.
Originally, any textual information on a computer containing jumps to other information. Hypertext jumps are called hyperlinks and are the primary means for navigating between pages and among Web sites. Hypertext has been expanded to also include hyperlinks from a picture or a graphic, and from image maps.
By definition, a text that contains links to other documents. On the internet hyertext is how we surf the web.
a collection of items (nodes) that are connected by arcs (links) which have source and target either from a node or to a location in a node (anchor). When one selects an anchor, the corresponding link is traversed and the target node is presented (positioned to show the target anchor if there is one). Hypertexts usually involve text documents.
A method of presenting information by using selected words in a text (known as links) to connect to other documents, which may be text, images, software, etc. The World Wide Web is an example of hypertext technology.
underlined text (can also be a different color than regular text on page, especially if you have clicked on it) that you can click on to take you to a linked page.
Essentially, any web page text that forms a link to another document, within or external to the website currently being visited, or a specific point within the same or another document. Hypertext has made the Internet what it is today, forming an integral part of any internal or external website navigation, allowing documents containing related information to be easily accessed by the click of a mouse. More commonly referred to as a link or hyperlink. See also: HTML | XHTML
A collection of documents containing cross-references which, with the aid of a Web browser, allow readers to move easily from one document to another.
Generally any text in a file that contains words, phrases, or graphics that, when clicked, cause another document to be retrieved and displayed. Hypertext most often appears blue and underlined in Web pages.
Text that is also a link to another webpage.
Words or phrases in a document which when selected, usually by clicking with a mouse, are used as links which summon up other information.
A system for retrieving information from servers on the Internet using World Wide Web client software. Hypertext consists of key words or phrases in a WWW page that are "linked" electronically to other websites or pages on the Internet.
Pieces of digital text which are 'marked up' and often contain words set as 'hot spots' also known as 'links' or 'hyperlinks'. If activated, these take the user to another piece of text. Particularly effective for reference works.
(n.) Text that is (a) organized so that the reader has choices about the pathway of ideas s/he follows while reading, and (b) supported by a technology that makes it easy to "jump" or "link" to the next set of ideas along the chosen path.
Hypertext is similar to a hyperlink. It is the specific name for a phrase or word that when "clicked" upon, will take the user to another document. Most hypertext is underlined and/or a different color from the rest of the text.
A term coined by Ted Nelson to refer to a nonlinear system of information browsing and retrieval that contains associative links to other related documents. Hypertext is the basic organizing principle of the WWW| français
A term used to describe text that contains links to other text to make the overall document more readable. Web pages contain hypertext in that they include links either to other web pages or to other sections of the same web page.
A (block) of text, identified and described by the syntax of HTML, as a link or shortcut, to another location either within a current document, or elsewhere on the World Wide Web.
This is a special type of database system, invented in the 1960s, in which “objects” can be freely “linked” to each other. As databases go, the Web is immensely decentralized and disorganized, but it is indeed a giant hypertext system—millions of document objects connected by hyperlinks.
Text on an HTML document which has been organized to provide links between other elements of the same document or other documents on the World Wide Web. Selecting a hypertext link (usually by clicking the mouse pointer on the text itself) will summon up additional information.
Text containing words or phrases which, when clicked, take the user to another part of the document or open a new document, display a picture, play a sound etc.
Combination of linked verbal and non-verbal information (also known as hypermedia).
Generally, any text that enables a user to access particular locations in webpages or other electronic documents by clicking on links within specific webpages or documents.
Text in one document that is linked electronically to text in another document or another part of the same document.
Any text on the web page that, when clicked on, will transfer a user to another place on the same page or to a different page.
Hypertext links information in a complex web of associations, powered by hyperlinks. Essentially a way of browsing information, hypertext is a way to describe how you learn information from a well-designed CD-ROM encyclopedia or from the Web.
HyperText is a system of text that is cross-referenced, usually by storing it in separate files in separate locations, even on very distant machines. Each body of text can contain embedded instructions ( tags) that act as links to other blocks of text in other files (or even in a different location in the same file.)
a computer technique for augmenting the standard linear format of traditional texts by establishing hyperlinks to related units of information. In hypertext documents, the user may choose to follow these links along a variety of paths.
A new concept for organizing information made possible by computers, where keywords or phrases can be used not only to reference additional resources (as in see Webster [1995]), but also serve as software links to these resources. When viewing an HTML document with a browser, hypertext ``anchors'' are displayed as underlined text. Clicking on this text immediately establishes a network connection to another file (or another place in the same file) containing more information on the underlined subject, and causes the browser to display this information. The other file can be anywhere on the Internet, and may contain almost anything including text, images, movies, or sounds.
documents which contain links to other documents.
Nonlinear text. Pieces of text interconnected with multiple links. The reader can choose one of many possible sequences. Methodology for information representation and access (e.g., in argumentative design) Conklin1987.
a document format which includes the use of specially coded, terms or images which, when selected or "clicked", connect to a linked location or file, or carry out a command to run an application or program
Describes a collection of documents containing cross-references or links which allow easy movement from one document or page to another.
An underlined word or phrase linked to another Intranet page or Web site. When you click the underlined passage, your browser whisks you to the site.
Hypertext is text that is not static. It can change, be formatted differently and link to other documents. With static text, you have to follow content from start to finish. Hypertext allows you to follow an idea from start to finish.
A system for organizing text through links, as opposed to a menu-driven hierarchy such as Gopher. Most Web pages include hypertext links to other pages at that site, or to other sites on the World Wide Web.
Text that is clicked on in order to activate a link.
Text that links one document to another. It is usually of a different color than the rest of the text on the page and/or underlined. In graphic browsers, the mouse pointer may convert to a hand with the a finger pointing when passing over hypertext. When accessed by Netscape Navigator, this page has it's hypertext underlined and in blue. Return to the top
Text that is linked to related documents.
Hypertext, hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference in a hypertext document to another document or other resource. As such it would be similar to a citation in literature. However, combined with a data network and suitable access protocol, it can be used to fetch the resource referenced. This can then be saved, viewed, or displayed as part of the referencing document.
Text that contains links to remote points in the document or to other files, documents, or graphics. Hypertext is created using HTML and is commonly distributed from Web sites.
A computer language used to create documents that contain links to other documents. When reading a hypertext document, such as a Web page, you can quickly jump to related documents by clicking your mouse on underlined or boldface words in the text.
Text that is linked to other related text. For example, most Help information is hypertext based. Hypertext words are typically highlighted in some manner, either by being displayed in a different color or underlined (or both). Clicking on a hypertext word takes you directly to the related information. Internet The largest collection of interconnected networks in the world. These include university, corporate, government, and research networks around the world. Millions of systems and people are connected to the Internet through these networks. You can connect to the Internet through an Internet Service Provider.
Describes a type of interactive online navigation. Hyperlinks embedded in words or phrases enable you to select (by clicking) text to immediately display related information and multimedia material.
Text written with special encoding that provides links to other locations within a document, or to other documents. Documents are displayed with some of the words highlighted. These highlighted words represent links to other documents that allow you, with just a few key strokes or clicks of a mouse, to view these other documents. These other documents may also have links to still other documents.
Text containing links to other documents, easily allowing the user to retrieve and display information.
An interconnected web of text information wherein any given word or phrase may link to another point in the document or to another document anywhere around the world.
Text in a document that contains a link to other text. You can click on hypertext to jump to the text designated in the link. Hypertext is used in Windows help programs and CD encyclopedias to jump to related references elsewhere within the same document. Using HTTP, hypertext can link to any Web document in the world.
Hypertext is computer text (usually enhanced with graphics, multimedia, and so on) that contains links to other text or multimedia. When you click on such a link, your browser reads in Web information from a new place. That place might be another paragraph in the document you're reading, or a completely different document on a computer halfway around the world.
Text that contains a hyperlink that allows the reader to move easily from one document to another.
A type of computer-based document which links resources on remote computers. Certain sections of the document are designated as "links" which connect one document to another, allowing the user to view resources on a remote computer by "clicking" on the higlighted link.
Text that contains links to other documents. HTML documents are examples of hypertext.
A cross reference text system where you can jump to other texts or parts of texts by choosing a word or a phrase.
A way of viewing or working with a document in text format that allows you to follow cross-references to other Web resources. By clicking on an embedded hyperlink, the user can choose her own path through the hypertext material.
A way of linking related pieces of information on a computer whereby the computer is essential in the reading and navigation.
An interactive system for linking text within documents to other documents, known as hypertext links. The reader can click on a word or phrase to get more information about a topic.
A system in which documents contain links that let the user jump from one file to related information in another file without having to shut the file the user is in. WWW is a hypertext system. con - A small picture or symbol representing a computer program, file, or feature.
A nonsequential text composed of links and nodes
Hypertext is text that links to other information. By clicking on a hypertext link, a user can quickly jump to different content. An example of a hyperlink is Click here for a defination of an operating system. Return to .
any text that contains links to other documents - words or phrases in the document. Selecting a hypertext link causes another document to be retrieved and displayed
Text containing links to other text. The foundation of the WWW and the internet, it was designed by Ted Nelson in 1965.
A type of text document which contains embedded "hotspots" which point to other sections of text or other documents. Any piece of text or graphic can be defined as a hotspot which points elsewhere.
The format that allows the user to link a word or phrase in one document to a related document anywhere in the Web.
the basic concept behind the WWW, whereby one resource can be linked to other relevant information elsewhere on the WWW. The user can view information non-sequentially; the idea is that the information is available in much the way that humans think - by association rather than linear sequence.
A way of writing that uses connections – or "links" – between parts of a page or computer file to make it possible for the reader to find their way around. The Web is a hypertext. So is a printed encyclopedia.
Links to other sections of the same document or to other documents over the WWW.
Describes a type of interactive on-line navigation functionality. Links (URLs) embedded in words or phrases allows the user to select text and immediately display related information and multimedia material. Hypertext and Hypermedia are what the web uses to link documents related to each other, allowing the reader to follow connection from one document to the next. Hypermedia links audio and video files.
Allows the user to select text and immediately display related information. You click on a hypertext link and your browser sends you to the place on the Web or a file that is associated with the address you click on.
An interactive on-line documentation technique that allows users to select ó typically via a mouse click ó certain words or phrases to immediately link to information related to the selected item.
Text documents which include instructions for display formatting in the form of 'Tags'.
Software feature; linking one file or address to another. For example, in a document, hypertext is text that when clicked on, transfers the user to another address or file.
Links that allow the presentation of content in a nonlinear way.
An approach to information management in which data is stored in a network of nodes connected by links. The nodes, which may contain text and even audio or video elements, are meant to be viewed interactively. Links provide pathways to other nodes for exploring further relevant information.
Hypertext may sound like a weird word, but without it we wouldn't be able to use the World Wide Web. "Hypertext" means there are shortcuts, or links, built into pages on the Web. These links will take you to another page quickly and easily. If you look at the page you are reading right now, there are lots of blue, underlined words. These are hypertext links, and if you click on them they will take you someplace new.
The system by which you can access text files by copying the key words (usually highlighted in blue). These link you to another part or with another document when you click on them. This is how the reading order and the appearance of data from screen to screen is controlled.
A collection of documents joined by links so that users can read it in a variety of different orders. » Back to top of screen
Specially formatted words in a document or on a website that serves as a link to another location.
Enables rapid access to various pieces of information stored separately from the main document, but cross-referenced.
Hypertext is commonly used in CD application and is an electronic link that allows navigation between related pieces of information.
A type of document that contains links to other documents.
A link between one document and other, related documents elsewhere in a collection. By clicking on a word or phrase that has been highlighted on a computer screen, a user can skip directly to files related to that subject.
collection of documents containing links allowing users to move easily between them
A hypertext document is a document structured in chunks of text and marked up usually using HTML, which is connected by links. Hence, the text in the document can properly be named hypertext because of its marked-up and navigable condition.
A special method of formatting text and graphics so that links can be created among the objects. On the World Wide Web, text and graphics that are "hyperlinks" are usually underlined blue, indicating that you can click them to link to related information.
A document that is a combination of text, graphic images, sound, video, and/or hyperlinks.
Text taht contains links to other parks of a docuent, or to documents held on another computer.
information written, organized, and presented in an electronic "document" that has words or pictures linked to other documents. Hypertext is a document with embedded links that when selected connect the user to related text, graphics, or sound file.
Highlighted words (text links) that connect to other areas on a web page, other pages in a web site, or other web sites on the Internet.
A portion of a text document that contains programming code linking it to the location of another related document. World Wide Web pages are connected with hypertext links. Hypertext is usually underlined and highlighted in blue.
A hypertext document contains links or pointers to other documents. You follow a link to another hypertext document and can return to the first document. [| Up to H| Down to J | Bottom
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Refers to the highlighted text in Web documents or computer programs that allows documents to be cross- linked in such a way that the reader can explore related documents by clicking on that highlighted word or symbol.
a system of writing and displaying text that enables the text to contain links to related documents. Hypertext is able to handle graphics and sounds as well as text, and hypermedia documents can thus contain links to other forms of media - sounds, images and movies, as well as to other pieces of text. (In hypertext, selected words in the document are "expanded" -- i.e., linked to other text, file or picture documents.) Hypertext is used in the WWW. _
Text that can be chosen by a reader and that causes another Internet document to be retrieved and displayed.
Any text that includes words, phrases or images (forming a hyperlink) that can be selected to go to another page or data source. See HTML.
This concept has actually been around more than fifty years. This is the text that you can see; the "hypotext" would be the computer function hidden beneath it. Hypertext is text that contains links (often called "hotlinks") from words or phrases to other documents that elaborate, explain, or otherwise follow a thought embodied in the linking word or phrase. For example, we might highlight the word "links" above. Clicking on that word would then connect you--via the HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP)--to a fuller discussion of the linking concept in a separate document. This second document might reside on your own computer or on a computer half a world away. Note that our definition of "document" includes text, images, sound, and video in any combination.
Text that includes hyperlinks to other documents.
textual information cross-referenced to allow non-linear reading
software technology that allows for fast and flexible access to information. Users browse and retrieve information by following hotlinks rather than following a linear structure. (p. 5)
Text that contains links to other documents. HTML documents. Also called hyperlinks.
Text that is linked to other related text. Hypertext words are highlighted, and you can click on hypertext to get to more related information. (It's kind of like getting together with your cousins at family gatherings.)
The system of linked pages of related material, created with HTML, which makes up the World Wide Web.
The presentation of information as a linked network of nodes which readers are free to navigate in a non-linear fashion. Ted Nelson called it "non-sequential writing."
a form of text retrieval which interconnects documents so that retrieval and cross-referencing is possible
Text that is organized by means of links, or jumps, from one piece of information to another. The reader can move among related topics by clicking on tagged words or phrases.
A technology that allows a computer user to click on a spot in a computer file that will then jump them to a different file. Links in World Wide Web pages are examples of hypertext.
Text on a Web page that, when clicked on, jumps the reader to another page or image. Go to Top
A term coined by Ted Nelson, it refers to a nonlinear information system, where the text includes electronic links to other parts of the same document or to other completely different documents. Hypertext is the basic organising principle of the WWW. The name literally means "exaggerated or interactive text, although the familiar computer slang usage is closer to "enabled or interactive text".
a textual presentation scheme in which users may access passages of text by using links or pointers imbedded in the text to select other, related, passages
Pages of content that contain linkages to other documents or data sources. One example of hypertext is the HTML code commonly used in World Wide Web pages.
programs in which the text is an active button that can be clicked to recall something.
Text materials with imbedded links to additional materials. When a reader selects any of the links, the screen jumps to the linked text. On the Internet, this link may be to materials within the same document, or to materials located on any site on the Internet.
Text in the form of highlighted and/or underlined words or phrases in a document that contain links to other documents. When “clicked” by the user enables another document to be retrieved and viewed.
Term coined by Ted Nelson denoting the linked across a potentially unlimited number of informational sources. One link takes the user to another document, which contains links to other documents (and so forth), and these documents can be located on any hyper- text- capable system anywhere in the world. Hypertext is the basis of the World Wide Web.
A hypertext document is like a text document with the ability to contain pointers to other regions of (possibly other) hypertext documents. Reference
text that is linked to something else, such as another page, other text within the page, a sound file, a graphics image, etc.
A special type of database system in which objects (text, pictures, music, programs) can be linked to each other. When you select an object, you can see all the other objects that are linked to it.
Text on the World Wide Web which is linked to another Web file. Click on a highlighted word and you’ll jump to another Web page or object. The links are made with HTML.
documents that contain links to other documents; selecting a link automatically displays the second document Back to the top
Electronic Text in a format that provides instant access, via links, to other hypertext within a documents or in another document.
Any text or graphic that contains links to other web pages, images, or files.
a form of online manual in which the reader can jump from place to place by clicking on table of contents and index entries, cross-references, or icons.
Hypertext is used in interactive applications to create nonlinear connections between content. For example, clicking on highlighted words or phrases can access other references (e.g., a definition of a concept), objects, images, or audio/video clips
A system of arranging information through which the user can navigate using hyperlinks.
Plain text which has been marked up with HTML and containing 'links' -- pointers to further information -- which can be activated in a Web browser simply by clicking on them. IJK
Any form of non-linear writing. This includes paper mechanisms such as table of contents and indexes. Computerized hypertext allows readers to navigate through large quantities of information.
A hypertext contains cross-reference hyperlinks on web pages which allow users to access to other documents.
Term originally used to describe a form of non-sequential writing. Now generally refers to computer-based text that is linked in a variety of linear and nonlinear ways. The world wide web was devised as a hypertext-based system.
A highlighted word or image [shown in colour] on a Web page that when clicked connects to another location with related information.
text format that contains hyperlinks and images. Hypertext is usually displayed using HTML, but other formats such as Adobe Acrobat PDF and Rich Text Format can be classified as hypertext as well.
Text documents containing active links (highlighted words or perhaps pictures) to other parts of the document or to other documents — often used on web pages.
the process of linking related information. For example, by selecting a word in a sentence, information about that word is retrieved if it exists, or the next occurrence of the word is found. The concept was coined by Ted Nelson as a method of making the computer respond to the way humans think and require information. Hypertext is the foundation of the World Wide Web. Links embedded within Web pages are addresses to other Web pages stored locally or in a Web server anywhere in the world.
links objects in a database system by clicking on the hypertext with the mouse. Hypertext is usually indicated by blue underlined text
Text that contains embedded links (hyperlinks) to other documents.
A system of writing or displaying text which allows related text to be linked.
electronic document(s) that make up the World Wide Web, in which one resource can be linked to another relevant resource elsewhere on the World Wide Web.
Generally, any text that contains links to other documents - words or phrases in the document that can be chosen by a reader and which cause another document to be retrieved and displayed. What we achieve: Glossary of terms Please select the first letter of your subject Or select our search function search for subjects License
The method of creating and publishing text documents in which users can navigate between other documents or graphics by selecting words or phrases designated as hyperlinks.
This term describes the system that allows documents to be cross- linked in such a way that the reader can explore related documents by clicking on a highlighted word or symbol.
hypermedia Nonlinear, or multilinear, computerized text. Unlike book pages, which are arranged in a set linear order, hypertexts are arranged in nodes or parts that may be viewed in a variety of orders by following links. Hypertext and hypermedia are usually used interchangeably since computer hypertexts often include graphics, sounds, or movies. Some hypertexts, such as a multimedia information kiosk in an airport, are just for reading or viewing; other hypertexts are interactive, meaning that the reader can make changes or add links. The World Wide Web is an interactive hypertext environment, because readers with the right hardware and software can publish their own documents and link to others.
This is a link on a web page that allows you to move to another site, page or to another location on the same page. The link usually has a different colour and may be underlined. After the link is selected, the link colour may change. For example, the links on this page are blue and will direct you to other parts of the page.
The concept of documents in depth, or documents which reference others in a point-and-click environment.
A highlighted word, phrase or image in a document on the web which, when activated, leads the viewer to another part of the same document or a related document on a different website.
A system of writing and displaying text that enables the text to be linked in multiple ways, available at several levels of detail. Hypertext documents can also contain links to related documents such as those referred to in footnotes. Hypermedia can also contain pictures, sounds, video.
Text that includes links to other Web pages. By clicking on a link, the reader can easily jump from one Web page to another related page.
The specific part of text in an HTML document that makes a link to another file.
Text within a document that is linked to other text, documents, images, audio, or movies.
The nonsequential retrieval of a document's text. The reader is free to pursue associative trails through the document by means of predefined or user-created links. In a true hypertext application, you can highlight virtually any word in a document and immediately jump to other documents containing related text. Commands also are available that enable you to create your own associative trails through the document.
images, text, and other computer files that allows direct links to related text, images, sound, and other data
A type of text that allows embedded "links" to other documents. Clicking on or selecting a hypertext link displays another document or section of a document. Most World Wide Web documents contain hypertext.
The system that allows online files to be cross-linked in a way that readers can explore by clicking highlighted words.
Hypertext is, in principle, a non-linear, non-hierarchical way to organize information. Highlighted words in a text can be selected in order to move to a related document or to another computer system. Hypertext is the basis for the World Wide Web.
The database system that links objects such as text to illustrations, photographs, and/or music. When you click on hypertext hyperlinks, you are instantly redirected to another document.
A text on the web page that is linked to another webpage. Browsers usually display hypertext as underlined and in blue color.
Text where words or phrases can be used as a clickable link to other texts. The central principle of HTML and the WWW.
A special type of database system in which objects (text, videos, audio, graphics) are linked to one another. In a hypertext system movements by the user are not linear or predetermined. Rather, the user chooses movements between objects of various forms uniquely. For example, while reading a document chronicling the Seattle Mariner’s 1997 season, a user can click the words Ken Griffey Jr. and retrieve a graph of Junior’s batting statistics for the season. The user can then click the link Home Runs and see a video of Junior’s famous swing.
Text which contains links to other files (such as other text, images, etc). These links can be selected and traced by the reader / user.
Text which contains links that can be selected with a mouse. When the user clicks the link, he/she is taken to another document or a different section of the current document. This glossary is a good example of hypertext.
Text with links to other text. Documents written as hypertext contain text that when "clicked on" by the user with a mouse, links to other documents.
Text, either words or phrases, that contains links to other files on the World Wide Web. Selecting this text will cause the other document to be retrieved and displayed.
A document that includes text, images, and links which are combined into a single computer display by browsers. It is the basis of the World Wide Web.
Text that can be clicked upon which causes another document or web page to be retrieved and displayed.
Links between related words, graphics, or documents that allow the user to jump to associated topics or definitions when reading menus or help files
Text that serves as a link to another Web page. By clicking on a hypertext link, the reader can easily jump from one Web page to another, related page.
documents containing embedded links ( hyperlinks) to other documents or other parts of the same document. Web documents tagged in hypertext markup language are hypertext documents.
Text that is used as navigational links. Click on text link to go to another place.
documents that maintain links to other documents, where selecting the link automatically displays the second document
A document containing links or cross-references that connect electronically to another document or site on the Internet.
The text-based version of hypermedia.
Also known as Hypertext Markup Language, or a link. This is clickable text or an image that links to another location on a Website. It may also link to an address to send E-mail.
Hypertext is a user interface paradigm for displaying documents which contain automated cross-references to other documents called hyperlinks. Selecting a hyperlink causes the computer to display the linked document within a very short period of time.
Term coined by Ted Nelson around 1965 for a collection of documents containing cross-references or "links" which, with the aid of an interactive browser program, allow the reader to move easily from one document to another.
The defining feature of the World Wide Web that allows users to move easily within a particular document or between web sites using hyperlinks.
This is a word or series of words (the word is usually highlighted or underlined) in a HTML document (home page) that, when clicked on, will send you to another home page/document. Graphical images can also be used this way, in which case, they are referred to as being hyperlinked .
Text which includes imbedded "hot links" to other sources of information. These links can take you to other parts of the document, or to other computers around the world, quickly and seamlessly. This is a non-linear way of presenting information, and is used on the WWW. Hypermedia includes not only text, but sound, graphic images, and video clips.
Text documents that are joined together by hyperlinks.
a way of jumping from one web page to another, by clicking on a highlighted word.
n. A way of presenting information online with connections (called hypertext links) between one piece of information and another.
A system of files linked together by a series of common links. The links can be scattered throughout the document or be gathered at the beginning or end of the document. This document and all HTML documents are examples of Hypertext documents.
Non-linear text. Image a computer screen with a word in bold. You click on the word and it "zooms in" to greater detail. Hypertext allows you to zoom in and zoom out of subjects and make connections between topics. Hypertext programs are useful for instruction and for information access.
The kind of text used in web pages to link material, allowing you to “jump†anywhere in space and time on the World Wide Web.
Method of presenting information so users can jump around a document by clicking on a highlighted word or an icon, rather than being forced to navigate it in a linear fashion.
Hypertext is a method of linking documents or parts of documents to other documents. A reader can move seamlessly to various sections of a document, a range of documents or sites on the World Wide Web by clicking on Hypertext links.
Text, graphics, and other media connected through links.
system for displaying information that contains references (called hyperlinks) to other information on the system, and for easily publishing, updating and searching for the information. The most well known hypertext system is the World Wide Web.
Transparent linkage of textual documents to other related documents, images, or files on the World Wide Web.
A collection of documents (or nodes) containing cross-references or links which, with the aid of an interactive browser program, let the reader move easily from one document to another. See also hypermedia.
Is a system that links text, graphics, music, and software to each other in a non-linear manner. AKA Hypermedia
The text version of the hyperlink.
A kind of text that permits embedded links to other documents.
Text that contains link s which can be clicked with a mouse. When the user "clicks" the link they are taken to another document or a different section of the current document. This Glossary is a good example of Hypertext.
Text containing links that, when chosen by a user, will "jump" to another block of text, either in the same document or in another.
a document with links to other Websites, or activations of audio, video, or photo-enlargement features within the Website
The basis of the WWW--a document with hyperlinks. The user can click on highlighted words and connect to a new location.
Any text within a document that is linked to another location. The other location could be within the same document, or a different document. Clicking hypertext with your mouse will activate the link. This site is made up of hypertext, containing many links.
The term given to any text document in which some of the text consistes of Hyperlinks, the obvious example of hypertext would be a WWW document.
Linked text. Users can browse through information by following hypertext.
On the World Wide Web, the feature, built into HTML, that allows a text area, image, or other object to become a "link" (as if in a chain) that retrieves another computer file (another Web page, image, sound file, or other document) on the Internet. The range of possibilities is limited by the ability of the computer retrieving the outside file to view, play, or otherwise open the incoming file. It needs to have software that can interact with the imported file. Many software capabilities of this type are built into browsers or can be added as "plug-ins."
Text within a Web page that is specially formatted to provide a connection to another page or location within the same page. Keywords in a document, for instance, can be made into hypertext links to more in-depth information.
Text that is "hyperlinked" (linked) to other Internet documents. Hypertext is generally easily identified because it is highlighted, underlined, and it changes the look of the pointer to a hand when you move the mouse over the linked text.
Text that when selected, has the ability to connect to related documents, regardless of their location.
A term used to describe associative writing, as opposed to linear (narrative) writing. People follow links in the text to read it their way, rather than how the author wrote it. Web pages are hypertext, and so are many CD-ROMs and computerized help systems.
Documents which contain embedded links (often underlined or otherwise differentiated from the rest of the text) which allow the user to easily move among different parts of the same document, or between documents. Example: Click here to jump to the top of the page.
The basis of the World Wide Web. Hypertext enables visitors to click on text or images on a Web page and move to a new page or a new place on the same page that contains further information. Hypertext is created using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
Data (text or images) that is specially encoded to contain links to other data. The links are activated by a mouse click.
Generally, any text that contains links to other documents. Web pages are usually hypertext documents since they have words or phrases in the document that can be chosen by a reader to cause another document to be retrieved and displayed. The objects, or text fragments that are coded for this retrieval are called Links.
A special type of database system, invented by Ted Nelson in the 1960s, in which objects (text, pictures, music, programs, and so on) can be creatively linked to each other.
A special type of database system where objects can be links together. By selecting an object, you can see all the objects that are linked or connected to it, even though the objects may be of different forms. For example, in the hypertext system of the World Wide Web, a link in a Web page (an HTML document) can link to a video or audio file.
An electronic document which contains built-in cross-references to other documents.
text, graphics, video, sound, and animation that is linked to other document or Web site locations.
Text in a document that contains a hidden link to other text. You can click a mouse on a hypertext word and it will take you to the text designated in the link. Hypertext is used in Windows help programs and CD encyclopedias to jump to related reference elsewhere within the same document. The wonderful thing about hypertext, however, is its ability to link - using http over the World Wide Web - to any Web document in the world, yet still require only a single mouse click to jump clear around the world.
a language that computers understand that controls the behaviour and appearance of a page on the web.
Text in a document on the WWW that allows you to jump from one location to another
Nonsequential writing; Ted Nelson's term for a medium that includes links. Nowadays it includes other media apart from text and is sometimes called hypermedia.
Online highlighted or underlined text that take a user to another website which has related information
Underlined text in a web document that has the property of giving the user's computer access to that location.
Enables users to read and navigate text in a nonlinear way. Instead of reading in a linear structure, such as a book, readers can skip easily from one point to another.
In general, any text that contains links to other text. You can find hypertext documents in many help menu of today's PC programs. Of course hypertext is also the glue that holds the WWW together. The AALBC website has literally thousands of hypertext links to pages within its site and throughout the Internet.
This is text that is linked with other text that covers the same topic. There are the so-called links which are usually marked in some way. When you click on the link, you come to another page displaying further information. Examples for Hypertext: WWW or the Windows - help files.
Documents with links to other documents. Click a link to display the other document. A hypertext document is a document structured in chunks of text and marked up, usually using HTML, which is connected by links.
Text, or links on a web page that links the user to another web page. The hypertext or links are usually a different color to other text on the page and are commonly underlined. Selecting a hypertext link will automatically display the second document.
Text which includes links (hotlinks) to other documents, images, or text.
Text which contains hyperlinks -- connections to other texts.
a nonlinear system of writing that allows users to access text and multimedia features through multiple pathways
words at a web site that appear underlined or in colour. By clicking on these words, you go to to another page or Web site where related information is found.
Specially-coded data which allows a user to select words or pictures within the document, click on them, and jump from one document (or part of one) to another.
Also known as a Link, it is text or an image that can be clicked on to call up another document or another section within the same document.
hot links in web pages to enable the user to go to another page by clicking on underlined text or a graphic.
Hypertext forms the main content of the World Wide Web. It consists of a textual core, with HTML tag embedded within it. These tags permit the text to become active in the sense that clicking on certain words can take you from place to place.
A means of linking computer-based documents in a non-linear way. For example, suppose you are reading a biography of Nelson Mandela and you come to a reference to his winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. In a hypertext document, a link could be made between the Mandela biography (the current document) and a document describing the Nobel Peace Prize and all of its winners. By simply clicking on the word "Nobel Peace Prize" a user could instantly see the linked document describing the prize and its winners' efforts toward peace.
Linkages from one file (usually text or a Web page) to other documents or Web pages. Also called hyperlinks.
A system proposed by Ted Nelson and others in which a rich structure of interconnections is created and used within on-line electronic documents. e.g. the World Wide Web
Documents that contain links to other documents within them - footnotes are a form of hypertext link.
Any document that contains links to other documents; selecting a link automatically displays the second document.
Any text that contains links to other documents. Words and phrases in a document can be chosen by a viewer in which would cause another document or page to open. Excellent for keyword weight in the search engines as well.
text on a Web page that is formatted with hyperlinks that will connect you to another page or another location within the same document; you can follow the links by clicking on highlighted or underlined text with your mouse.
a term coined by Theodor Nelson for a collection of information objects or nodes, containing text (and sometimes other multimedia formats in which case it is often called hypermedia), with links, that thus serves as an information graph that can be traversed by an hypertext system, which can present each node and follow links from anchors in nodes to other nodes (at which time the target node is also presented) --- information with a nonlinear organization
Refers to text that has active links between them. Selecting a link will take the user down that path immediately.
This is a mark-up language that allows for non-linear transfers of data. The method allows your computer to provide the computational power rather than attaching to a mainframe and waiting for it to do the work for you.
A method of presenting documents electronically that allows them to be read in a richly interconnected way. Rather than following a single document from beginning to end, sections of each document are connected to related occurrences in other documents via hyperlinks, permitting ‘non-linear' reading following concepts of interest to the reader. See also: Hyperlink, HTML, World Wide Web.
Allows the definition or explanation of data and/or information, such as a glossary, to be stored where you need it, when you need it, by allowing it to be scanned through a "point an click" process.
Text in web documents that contains links to another document.
Text that is not constrained to a single linear sequence. Hypertext documents contain special embedded “links” which allow users to connect to other documents on a similar topic.
Text that can be read either in the normal linear fashion or by following links to other logically related sections.
A system of text in a computer document in which clicking on specially marked parts of the text automatically transfers you to a related page or document. Examples of hypertext are World Wide Web pages and Windows Help files
Text that uses links to provide navigation among Web pages or documents. When the text is "clicked on," it can enable a user to navigate within or between Web pages. See hyperlink.
The concept of including in a document a way of going to the definition of a term or an article about a phrase.
A way of presenting text so that you can click on a link within it, say a cross-reference, and instantly be transported to the relevant text, whether it is elsewhere in the current document or in another document entirely. The most obvious examples are World Wide Web pages and Windows helpfiles.
electronic documents that present information that can be read by following many different directions through links, rather than just read linearly like printed text.
A term created to describe non-linear writing in which you follow associative paths through a world of textual documents.
A document which has been marked up to allow a user to select words or pictures within the document, click on them, and connect to further information.
Text elements within documents, classically underlined and in colored font, that can be clicked on by the user to follow a path to a new location. The new location can be in the same document or in a new document or graphic, or another page on the Internet. For example in WebKF, "Views" are hypertext.
Text that is organized by links and jumps that move the reader from one piece of online information to another in a nonlinear fashion.
Hypertext is distinguished from normal continuous text by cross-references (Hyperlinks) to other documents or text locations. By clicking on a marked text location or other object inserted in the text (e.g. graphics) the referenced document or the relevant text location is automatically displayed, or a file is downloaded, or another program started or....
Specially formatted text used in World Wide Web documents. When you click on or choose this text, you will jump to the Web page that the hypertext is linked to. That new page will very likely have a hyperlink to take you back to your starting point. you can travel all over the Web this way, always able to jump back to where you began. Hypertext lets you organize the information you read into different formats.
Any text on a Web page can be linked to another Web page anywhere in the world, so that clicking on the text jumps the reader to it.
Hypertext, or links, are words on a Web page that connect to a separate page or to another part of the same page. Your browser should indicate hypertext words by displaying them in a different color or type style. To access the link, click the hypertext word. Hypertext is not confined to the Internet, however. Windows Help files, for example, also feature linking text.
A text link to other documents containing more information on the same or a related topic. Hypertext links are identified as different coloured text with an underline. To retrieve the related document, or move to the related link, click on the hypertext.
words in an electronic document that are linked to illustrations or other text, such as a related document or a definition.
text that contains links to other parts of a document, or to documents held on another computer.
Pages of computer text that are authored in software allowing for non linear navigation based upon button controls, hotwords, or other controls that make sequencing of pages virtually irrelevant.
This is not overly energetic "hyper" text. This is a word document that is linked to another by a hyperlink.
Hypertext links make it possible to connect or link a passage in a document to another document on the same web site or a document on web site on a machine residing on the opposite side of the world. One click on the link takes the user automatically to the document to which the object that has been clicked on is linked.
The arrangement of information into connections made by a user, usually by clicking a link. The World Wide Web is simply an enormous amount of content connected by an enormous number of hypertext links.
Text on a web page that links the user to another web page. The hypertext, or links will usually be a different color than the other text on the page and is usually underlined.
A text format that allows for links from keywords in a document to other sections of the document or to other documents. Hypertext can be used within an HTML document.
Hypertext is clickable hyperLinked text which, when clicked on, cross-refers the reader to related text that's situated elsewhere in either the same or a different document, just as Ted Nelson described it in the 1960s in his twin books "Computer Liberation" and "The Dream Machine"; but avoid Jacques Derrida's long treatise on hypertext which is full of his complex and convoluted and totally opaque cerebrations and lucubrations and rationcinations that try but fail to explain in French what Ted Nelson says clearly and lucidly in English. See HTML. | HTML-Curriculum | More Links | | | Links
Text on a Web page that takes the visitor to another page when clicked on.
in hypertext literature from ACM Nelson, 1965 (ACM?)@@ What is Hypertext in [WebDesign90
A software program that allows a type of text notation to link the reader to other parts of the document or to other documents. Hypertext is usually thought of as an Internet feature, however, the linking functionality is commonly used in help files as well. See also HyperText Markup Language.
Hypertext is a concept in which a line of text can point to some other information, either in another document or the same one you're browsing. As you are reading the document you'll see some form of hypertext link; generally underlined text in a different color. Clicking on the link takes you to different information -- usually relating to the original words.
The linked text within a web page that contains connections to other items on the Internet, such as another web page, web site, email address, or sound file.
An information-processing system in a text domain. Text information is stored in nodes, and nodes are interconnected, one to another. Top Page
A system of interconnected documents where the user can "jump" from one location or document to another. This Web Site utilizes hypertext to let you move between pages, or in the case of this glossary to jump to the start of a specific section of letters.
An easy method of retrieving information by choosing highlighted words in a text on the screen. The words link to documents with related subject matter.
A way of presenting information in which text, sounds, images and actions are joined by links together in a way that allows the user to go from one page to another in any order.
Hypertext is a system of browsing the Internet, whereby you can move from document to document in a multiplicity of ways. Each document has a number of links (often represented by underlined text) to related documents anywhere else on the internet. The use of hypertext mark-up language (HTML) and hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), which is capable of supporting text, images and multimedia, has led to the development since the late 1980's of the World Wide Web.
System of linking files (text, graphics, video or sound) through embedded links.
a document formatting that allows documents to be linked by making certain words or phrases "clickable." When the link is followed, the information on the second document is related to the word in the first document. Hypertext is the formatting used on the World Wide Web.
A type of text that allows embedded "links" to other documents. Click on a highlighted word or section of a Web page, and you will 'jump' to another page that could be located on another continent. Web pages on similar topics are often linked this way to allow a user to easily find material that's related.
Text that contains embedded links to other documents or information.
Developed by Ted Nelson in the 1960s, a path, or link to other information and objects located on computers connected to the World Wide Web. George P. Landow (3) defines hypertext as "the use of the computer to transcend the linear, bounded and fixed qualities of the traditional written text." From Hypermedia and Literary Studies (Paul Delany and George P. Landow, eds.Cambridge, MA. MIT Press, 1991).
The highlighted words on World Wide Web pages that enable you to jump from one page to another without typing commands.
The underlying system used to create a collection of documents with links to other documents is called hypertext. Such a collection of documents is used on the World Wide Web, but other databases are often organized in this way as well.
Generally, any text that contains links to other documents - words or phrases in the document that can be chosen by a reader and which cause another document to be retrieved and displayed. See also: HTML, HTTP
text that contains links (see below) to other web pages
A way of presenting information in which text, sounds, images, and actions are linked together in a way that allows you to move between them in whatever order you choose. Hypertext usually refers to any text available on the World Wide Web that contains links to other documents.
A system in which objects (text, pictures, music, programs, and so on) can be creatively linked to each other, permitting the user to browse through related topics regardless of the presented order of the topics. A hypertext link (hyperlink) is the point of access to additional information on a Web page or CDROM.
underlined text that points to another web page. Google pays particular attention to the text used in a hyperlink and associates the keywords contained in the hyperlink text to the page being linked to. Also see "Google bombing." [ edit
A text that contains links to other documents. In a hypertext, words or phrases in the document can be chosen by a reader which cause another document to be retrieved and displayed. [ google.com] Conceptually, hypertext conceives information as nodes and link networks forming navigable path that can be toured, returned to and referenced in non-linear or multi-linear fashion. [ cyberartsweb.org] This site uses "computer hypertext" in it's broadest sense as text composed of blocks of words (or images) linked electronically by multiple paths, chains, or trails in an open-ended, perpetually unfinished textuality described by the terms link, node, network,web, and path. [ George P. Landow in Hypertext 2.0] Ted Nelson is given general credit for coining the term.
Works in hypertext are meant to be more than words and other images. These productions (ingrained magnetically on computer diskette or CD) are conceived to take advantage of readers' and writers' propensities to seek out twists in narrative trajectories and to bushwhack from the main path of multifaceted reference topics. Hypertext books incorporate documents, graphics, sounds, and even blank slates upon which readers may compose their own variations on the authored components. The computer's capacities to afford such diversions can bring reader and hypertext literature so close as to gain entry to each other's mind-sets - which is what good books have always done.
A computer application that integrates at least one other medium with text, such as sound or graphics. Integrating all media together in one application, with some kind of navigation system among them, creates a hypermedia application.
Text containing internal and external links or pointers to other texts or services.
Documents that are connected to each other through links -- i.e., words or phrases that can be clicked on with a computer mouse.
a term to describe non-linear writing in which you follow associative paths. The foundation of the Web.
Text on a computer (which can be stored, read, searched, or edited), with connections within the text to other documents.
Hypertext is text (appearing in electronic media) which is not constrained to be sequential; by using highlighted words and images, the user can access other web pages by clicking on the word or image, thus progressing through the information in a non-sequential manner.
System for browsing the Web through the use of links implemented in displayed pages.
The organizing principle of the World Wide Web that joins related concepts together through links within and between documents.
Hypertext link or Hyperlink is a text-linking strategy that lets you jump between related information in a document by clicking on a button or highlighted word.
A computer-based system for linking text and other information with cross-references, making access fast and criticisms easy to publish and find.
Text that includes links or shortcuts to other documents, allowing the reader to easily jump from one text to related texts, and consequentially from one idea to another, in a non-linear fashion.
Multimedia documents that can contain pictures and sounds as well as text, with imbedded links to other parts of the same or other hypertext documents.
is text that has been linked to another location on the Internet. By selecting this "sensitive" text (often underlined as in www.187gerrard.com) you are requesting to open the document to which the text refers. When you click on or select hypertext you are transported directly to the page of the linked site.
A form of electronic document with built-in links to other documents, themselves frequently hypertext, and so on. If are skipping in this glossary from the terms in one definition to their definitions in another, you are experiencing a rudimentary form of hypertext.
(http) A system of coding text that links electronic documents with each other. Elements in a hypertext document (i.e. words, pictures, etc.) are linked to elements in other documents. Click on a phrase and the screen reloads with a page of information about that idea; click on a picture and learn more about that visual.
Text elements within multimedia documents, classically underlined and in colored font, that can be clicked on by the user to follow a path to a new location in a document, supplemental material like a graphic or another page on the net. Many so-called e-learning programs are just former word documents that have been converted into HTML with some cross links put in. Hypertext is a nice feature, but is a poor substitute for task analysis, instructional design, practice and feedback.
Hypertext is a method of presenting text which makes explicit the relationships between related passages. This is achieved by marking relevant parts of the text as 'live' and linking these to other parts of the same document or a different document. A user can read the text in arbitrary order, following links as she sees fit.
Software technology used to create and store simple and complex navigational paths across computerised data, thus allowing through mouse click to navigate easily in the data.
An inter linked document structure that allows the user to jump freely from one topic or document to another.
The format of computer documents written in HTML. This is the format used to create documents for the World Wide Web. Hypertext includes embedded links, which enable the user to jump from one link to another, at another location on the Web. Return
Electronic text coded to provide instant access, via links, to other hypertext (or hypergraphics) elsewhere within a document or in a separate document.
The dynamic linking of associated concepts among and within documents, so that the reader can easily move from one concept to another related concept. An example could be any computerized document that can lead the reader to various related information through hyperlinks. (See also Hyperlinks).
Text that allows embedded links to other documents. Clicking on a hypertext link displays the destination text or document. The World Wide Web is made up of hypertext documents. back to the top
Originally, any textual information on a computer containing jumps to other information. The hypertext jumps are called hyperlinks. In World Wide Web pages hypertext is the primary way to navigate between pages and among Web sites. Hypertext on World Wide Web pages has been expanded to include hyperlinks from text and hyperlinks from image maps.
Text that provides links between key elements, allowing the user to move through information non-sequentially.
Originally used for all hyperlinks and still used for text that contains "links" to other documents. A non-linear method of organizing text, graphics and other kinds of data, which allows individual elements point to one another. Internet - The interconnected computer networks that all use TCP/IP protocols. Evolving from the ARPANET of the late 60's and early 70's, the Internet now (July 1995) connects roughly 60,000 independent networks into this vast global network.
A collection of documents (or "nodes") containing cross-references or "links" which, with the aid of an interactive browser program, allow the reader to move easily from one document to another. MORE Close
Text in a document that contains a link to other text. Hypertext is used in Windows help programs and CD encyclopedias as well as web pages to link and reference related information across documents. Page Top
Generally, any text that contains links to other documents - words or phrases in the document that can be chosen by a reader which cause another document to be retrieved and displayed. Blizzard uses hypertext links as part of SEO.
The World Wide Web is built around this concept. Documents are formatted with special tools that permit authors to link information to other documents of relevance elsewhere on the Internet. The Web is composed of "pages," documents written in hypertext, or HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Using this information, graphical browsers like Mosaic or Netscape display images and text. By clicking on highlighted text, one can move to related information and images located anywhere around the world, reading and accessing countless pages of on-line information in various media (audio, video, pictures, etc.). A nongraphical browser called Lynx also enables access to Hypertext documents, with keystrokes instead of a mouse.
text (usually blue) on which a user can click to take them to a different web site, download a file or perform an action on the World Wide Web.
Hypertext is "clickable" text in a web site that moves you immediately from one part of a document to another. Most hypertext is underlined and a different color from the rest of the text.
A system of writing and displaying text that enables the text to be linked in multiple ways, to be available at several levels of detail, and to contain links to related documents.
A text filing system that allows for documents and/or pieces of text to be linked together into a network of any particular order. An example of hypertext is this page, which has links here and there that allow the reader to move from one spot to another without scrolling.
Text that contains 'active sites' — words or images — which, when clicked upon with the mouse, link the user to a new document. The actual process by which such documents, which may be located anywhere on the Internet, are accessed is hidden from the user.
A document that contains links which allow the user to go to another document or web page by clicking on the link. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Document format in which web-based documents are created. It is based on the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
A method of organizing text that allows it to be accessed in a non-linear fashion.
Hypertext is text which contains links to other texts.
An online document that has words or graphics containing links to other documents. Usually, selecting the link area on-screen (with a mouse or keyboard command) activates these links.
Highlighted text in a web page that links the user to additional related information.
Non-linear text, containing plain text and links. You are currently reading a hypertext document.
A computer-based system that allows the user to quickly and easily jump from one document to another, or to another section in the same document.
a text link to other documents containing more information on the same or a related topic. Hypertext links are identified by a web browser by colored and underlined text. To retrieve the related document, click on the hypertext. See URL, hyperlink, hypergraphic.
Any text that contains links to other documents or files.
Text that allows readers to jump spontaneously among onscreen documents and other resources by selecting highlighted keywords that appear on each screen. Hypertext appears most often on the World Wide Web.
A way of viewing or working with a document in text format which allows cross-references to be followed and then return. This presents a nonlinear means of dealing with text and is accomplished through a computer interface to text.
A "non linear" means of presenting information to a a reader. Topics presented on hypertext pages include special textual items ("links") which allow the reader to quickly explore related topics hypertext encyclopedia presents topics with links to related subjects so the reader can explore areas in further depth if they so desire.
Generally, any text that contains "links" to other documents - words or phrases in the document that can be chosen by a reader and which cause another document to be retrieved and displayed. Back to About HIP
Data that contains one or more links to other data; commonly seen in web pages and in online help files. Key words usually are underlined or highlighted. Example: If you look for information about "Cats" in a reference book and see a note that says "Refer also to Mammals" the two topics are considered to be linked. In a hypertext file, you click on a link to go directly to the related information.
A hyperlink presented a text.
A document that contains highlighted areas which when selected automatically transfer the client to a different location within the original document, or another document, image, movie or other resource.
Text that is not constrained to a single sequence for observation; Web-based hypertext is not constrained to a single server for creating meaning.
Any text embedded in a computer display that links to other documents. Other documents are displayed by clicking on a Hypertext Word.
The ability of a webpage to link to other webpages and files.
system enabling the non-sequential connection of information, linking one computer file with another. The user can choose to follow the link or to continue using the original file sequentially. Used for the Web. See also hyperlink, hypertext mark-up language.
Text that can be read in a non-linear fashion, by following a series of links between related sections of material. Typical applications for hypertext include reference works such as encyclopedias or dictionaries, where interesting or useful explanations of highlighted words in the text can be reached by clicking on them with a mouse.
A document, written in HTML, which contains hyperlinks to other documents, which may or may not also be hypertext documents. Hypertext documents are usually retrieved using WWW. See also: hyperlink, Hypertext Markup Language, World Wide Web. [Source: RFC1983
Hypertext is text that contains a link to other documents or files. Return Top
Text which links to other content by being an in-context link. The basis of the original text-only internet page structure. Any word can be a link to another page, idea, image or internet site, thus the "hyper" in the term. The actual link is called a "hyper link."
A document that contains links to other documents, commonly seen in Web pages and help files.
The code developed by Ted Nelson that is the backbone of web page design
Hypertext is a system in which text that contains links to other documents causes another document to be retrieved and displayed.
A term created by visionary Ted Nelson to describe nonlinear writing in which you follow associative paths through a world of textual documents.
a system of linking electronic documents, allowing the reader to easily jump from one text to related texts, and consequentially from one idea to another, in a non-linear fashion.
A way of organizing information in electronic documents that embeds links to further information. Readers retrieve related and supporting documents by selecting hyperlinks. Hypertext is the main organizing principal behind the World Wide Web.
A software system that links one element on the screen to related information and/or graphics and files elsewhere. Any link which you click that takes you to another document or web page is a hypertext link. Hypertext is useful on websites as it allows a kind of 'turning pages' or navigation that is possible with a physical book.
Highlighted text on a Web page that connects you to other locations on the page or to other sites on the Web when clicked.
Text that contains hyperlinks to other documents. In other words, when the text is displayed you can click on certain regions of the document and are taken to elsewhere in the document or to another document. This is the basis of the World Wide Web. See Also Hyperlink
A way of presenting information online with connections between one piece of information and another. These connections are called hypertext links. Thousands of these hypertext links enable you to explore additional or related information throughout the online documentation. See also hypertext link.
Documents on the World Wide Web have author-defined features called links or hotspots. Each of these, when selected by a user, connects the text to related items that may be located anywhere on the ground.
Any text that contains links to other documents. When users click on hyperlinked text, another document is retrieved and displayed.
Text, in a form readable by a web browser, in which the reader may navigate from one passage to another by clicking on hyperlinks within the text. (Wiktionary)
Any document that contains hypertext links to other documents. HTML documents are almost always hypertext documents.
Text that contains links to other documents - words or phrases in the document that can be chosen by an Internet user which causes another document to be retrieved and then displayed. InfoGrid consolidates popular news and information from over 3000 news sources, 12 top internet search engines, 16,000 direct-links, 6.1 million Open Directory links, 35,000 usenet news forums, top internet auctions and vendors without advertising. This Online InfoGrid contains 10% of total links. To upgrade click on UpGrade Now InfoGrid is best viewed with ActivatorDesk, Internet Explorer or Netscape 6.
In computing, hypertext is a user interface paradigm for displaying documents which, according to an early definition (Nelson 1970), "branch or perform on request." Hypertext is a way of organizing material that attempts to overcome the inherent limitations of traditional text and in particular its linearity. The prefix hyper- (Modern Greek term for over or beyond) signifies the overcoming of such constraints.