Hypertext

Originally, any textual information on a computer containing jumps to other information. The hypertext jumps are called hyperlinks. On the World Wide Web, hypertext is the primary way to navigate between pages and among Web sites. Hypertext on Web pages has been expanded to include hyperlinks from text, from a picture or a graphic, and from image maps.
Any document that can guide a user through a path of steps using clickable links is a hypertext document The links are called hypertext links. Clearly web pages are hypertext documents, but this help file also qualifies. Now days, a hypertext document almost always refers to a web page. Within a Web page, an author can define words or images to be linked to other Web pages including pages within their own document. When readers click on the word or image, they jump directly to the Web page specified by the author. These jumps are called hypertext.