TUTORIAL HTML : Text Links (Anchors)

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The World Wide Web got its spidery name from the plentiful connections (links) that link websites together with the click of a button. What most people don't know is that HTML links are actually HTML anchors constructed using anchor tags (<a>).

HTML Text Link:

<a>I am a text link!</a>

HTML Text Link:

I am a text link!

While the example above appears and feels like a text link when viewed through a web browser, the element is incomplete as it is missing a vital attribute that references another web page called a Hypertext Reference (href).

html - hypertext reference (href):

A Hypertext Reference (href) is an HTML attribute of an anchor (link) tag that requires a valid URL in order to properly direct a user to a different location. In other words, this Hypertext Reference is where users will navigate to if they do click on this link. Use the demonstration below as a reference......

    

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