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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Use the Navigation Element

Posted by Vince De Vera
Vince De Vera
Courses Plus Student 1,145 Points

Can someone explain to me what this is

Can someone please explain href to the index.html mean?

2 Answers

Andres Altuve
Andres Altuve
16,274 Points
Andres Altuve
Andres Altuve
16,274 Points

The href attribute specifies the URL of the page the link goes to, for example:

<a href="index.html">Home </a>

This is a link to the main page of your site.

Santiago Posada
Santiago Posada
5,189 Points
Santiago Posada
Santiago Posada
5,189 Points

index is the page you are working with, If you check your file is named index so when you add this href means it will lead the site visitors to this page in this case index is your homepage. so what goes inside the quotes is the destination in this case "index.html"

Is like when you are on a website you click on the upper left corner to go to the homepage, in this case your homepage is the index one, which is the name of the file, when you add more pages you will direct the visitors to other pages so you will add more href= any other page.html"