Hot Links:
<a href="http://mumble.com/index.html"> Hot Text </a> Here, mumble.com points to the page you want to link, Hot Text is the stuff you want to be clickable. Hotlinks are another form of anchor which is appropriate since they too define a location.
Here is a hot link in an image that opens in a new tab.It's clickable because it lies between the opening tag for the hotlink and the closing </a> tag. You can make a hotlink out of anything this way. target="o" is the bit that makes it open in a new tab.
><a href="http://enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/sj/index.php#html" target="o"><img src="http://enemiesforeignanddomestic.com//sj/images/61cb2_zQLMZ.gif" align="right" alt="Kittie doing its nails."></a> Yields:
