What is Bookmark (World Wide Web)

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A bookmark is a saved shortcut that directs your browser to a specific Webpage. It stores the title, URL, and Favicon of the corresponding page. Saving bookmarks allows you to easily access your favorite locations on the Web.

When you are looking at a particular Web site or Home page and want to be able to quickly get back to it later, you can create a bookmark for it. You can think of your browser as a book full of (millions of ) Web pages and a few well-placed bookmarks that you have chosen. The list that contains your bookmarks is the "bookmark list" (and sometimes bookmark is called a "Hotlist.")


How to Create a Bookmark on Browser :


1. To create a bookmark, simply visit the page you want to bookmark and select Add Bookmark  or   Bookmark this Page from the Bookmarks menu.

2. In Internet Explorer, you can click the star icon to open the Favorites sidebar and click Add to     Favorites to add the current page to your bookmarks. The website title will show up in your bookmarks list along with the website's favicon if available. As your collection of bookmarks grows,

3. You can create folders to organize your bookmarks into different categories.

4. It is helpful to bookmark frequently visited websites and useful references since you don't have  to   remember the URLs.

5. Additionally, you can just click the bookmarks instead of typing in the full web addresses.
Some browsers even display your bookmarked pages in the autocomplete drop down menu as you type in the address bar. This allows you to visit bookmarked pages without even opening the bookmarks window or sidebar in your browser.

NOTE: A bookmark only stores the location of a webpage, not store the contents of the webpage itself. Therefore, when you open a previously saved bookmark, the contents of page may have changed since the last time you viewed it.


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