The HTML `a` tag
Discover the basics of working with the HTML `a` tag to create links
Links are defined using the a tag. The link destination is set via its href attribute.
Example:
<a href="https://flaviocopes.com">click here</a>Between the starting and closing tag we have the link text.
The above example is an absolute URL. Links also work with relative URLs:
<a href="/test">click here</a>In this case, when clicking the link the user is moved to the /test URL on the current origin.
Be careful with the / character. If omitted, instead of starting from the origin, the browser will just add the test string to the current URL.
Example, Iām on the page https://flaviocopes.com/axios/ and I have these links:
/testonce clicked brings me tohttps://flaviocopes.com/testtestonce clicked brings me tohttps://flaviocopes.com/axios/test
Link tags can include other things inside them, not just text. For example, images:
<a href="https://flaviocopes.com">
<img src="test.jpg">
</a>or any other elements, except other <a> tags.
If you want to open the link in a new tab, you can use the target attribute:
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