HTML Links

Links are found in nearly all web pages. Links allow users to click their way from page to page.

HTML links are hyperlinks. You can click on a link and jump to another document. When you move the mouse over a link, the mouse arrow will turn into a little hand.

A link does not have to be text. A link can be an image or any other HTML element!

<a> tag defines a hyperlink.

<a href=" url "> link text </a>

<a> element is the href attribute, which indicates the link's destination. The link text is the part that will be visible to the reader. Clicking on the link text, will send the reader to the specified URL address.

This example shows how to create a link to W3Schools.com: <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/">Visit W3Schools.com!</a> By default, links will appear as follows in all browsers:

Links can of course be styled with CSS, to get another look!

By default, the linked page will be displayed in the current browser window. To change this, you must specify another target for the link. The target attribute specifies where to open the linked document. The target attribute can have one of the following values: _self

_blank - Opens the document in a new window or tab _parent - Opens the document in the parent frame _top - Opens the document in the full body of the window

Use target="_blank" to open the linked document in a new browser window or tab: <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/" target="_blank">Visit W3Schools!</a> Absolute URLs vs. Relative URLs Both examples above are using an absolute URL (a full web address) in the href attribute. A local link (a link to a page within the same website) is specified with a relative URL (without the "https://www" part):

<p><a href="https://www.w3.org/">W3C</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/">Google</a></p>

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To use an image as a link, just put the <img> tag inside the <a> tag:

<a href="default.asp">

</a>

<a href="mailto:someone@example.com">Send email</a>

To use an HTML button as a link, you have to add some JavaScript code. JavaScript allows you to specify what happens at certain events, such as a click of a button:

<button onclick="document.location='default.asp'">HTML Tutorial</button>

JavaScript Tutorial.

The title attribute specifies extra information about an element. The information is most often shown as a tooltip text when the mouse moves over the element.

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Use a full URL to link to a web page: