What is Broken Links?

[Adriataylor]

What are broken links on a website?
what are broken links on a website?, why do they happen?,
how to mend them?, do these hyperlinks have any life?, I use DW and when I use check links options it shows a few broken links, but the site seems to work fine, any ideas what is happenning?

[sevenskulls]

A broken link doesn't work when you click on that link, the reason there is some missing things, or miss spelling etc.