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

Posted by Leslie Mann
Leslie Mann
Courses Plus Student 228 Points

what is href attribute as in <a href=

Can you explain what the "href" in <a href=index.html"></a> means? just looking for some clarification on this. I think it is the code to add a link between 2 html files, is this correct?

Yonatan Schultz
Yonatan Schultz
12,045 Points
Yonatan Schultz
Yonatan Schultz
12,045 Points

<a> is an anchor tag in html. href within that anchor lets that anchor know where it will be referencing. This is typically used for links. For instance,

<a href="http://google.com">Google</a>

Will display a link to google.com

3 Answers

Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 Points
Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 Points

an anchor tag Href specifies the destination of a link.

This could be an ID on a page or a link to another page :)

Leslie Mann
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Leslie Mann
Courses Plus Student 228 Points
Leslie Mann
Leslie Mann
Courses Plus Student 228 Points

thank you!!

Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 Points
Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 Points

No problem. Glad I could clear it up :)

Sam Donald
Sam Donald
36,305 Points
Sam Donald
Sam Donald
36,305 Points

If you'r using the link to direct visitors to an image, video, article etc... on another site then a good idea would be to give your anchor tag a blank target, like this. 

<a target="_blank" href="http://somedomain.com">some words</a>

This will make the liked page (the href attribute) open in another tab. This is good for external site links as it allows your site visitors to remain on your site while still delivering the content they were after.