HTML Links

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Links

HTML Links are very necessary for all web pages. All websites have links. HTML Links are hyperlinks.

Links help users jump from their current web page location to another.

To make HTML links we just need to use the <a> element with the href attribute that specifies a URL to a page.

HTML Link Structure

• start tag <a>
• href attribute eg href="index.html"
• element content. A text eg Home Page. It can also be an image and other HTML elements
• end tag <a>

Internal Linking

Example:

<a href="file-in-the-same-folder.html">Example</a>

External Linking

Example:

<a href="https://movies.dataidea.org/">Movies</a>

Opening Link in New Tab

Example:

We can easily open a link in a new tab.

To do this, we need to use the target attribute with the value _blank.

This would be helpful if you do not want to your visitors to leave your website.

<a href="https://football.dataidea.org/" target="_blank">Movies</a>

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