a link that takes you immediately to another page (or another place on the same page) simply by clicking your mouse button
a special kind of text that links to other documents
A connection to a document or other file on the Internet that generally appears as a highlighted word or image on the screen. Also Hypertext Link or Link.
A shortcut that links to other web pages or internet sites.
A mechanism for sharing data between two application programs or sites on the Web. Clicking on a hot link in one site takes the user to another site specified by the link (see "image map").
A connection between data in one program and its use in another, for example allowing data to be changed in a spreadsheet, whereupon a separate graphics or DTP package - connected to the first by a hot link - automatically changes its representation of that data.
A special way that two programs can share data; changing data in one program automatically changes the same data in another program. An example of a hot link is a word processor document with spreadsheet data. If you change the spreadsheet data using a spreadsheet program, the data automatically changes in the work processor document as well.
allows the user to click on highlighted or underlined words and automatically access the URL for the linked site.
An area on a web page which is responsive to a mouse click which links the browser to another web page or Internet resource. Text hot links are often highlighted by underlining or displayed in a different color than the surrounding text. Graphics links often have an easily visible border. Ralph noticed a hot link on his school's web page to the campus library's on-line catalogue of books and journals which he quickly reached when clicking his mouse on the link.