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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Include External CSS

Posted by Joyce Magondu
Joyce Magondu
237 Points

Using the link rel and connecting with h ref

Wondering why you used "h ref" instead of using " a href" when using the link ref ?

1 Answer

Mitchell Springer
Mitchell Springer
2,576 Points
Mitchell Springer
Mitchell Springer
2,576 Points

href is used just to indicate that a url is going to be connected to something else. Normally that is the anchor (a) tag and thus creates a hyperlink. You can use href with other things such as the area tag to link certain areas of the page to a url. In the case with the link tag, you are linking your html file with the css file by using href to tell the html file the url of the css file.

This is my understanding of href. Hopefully I'm not wrong and this makes sense.