The link is a feature in HTML that allows the user to connect two webpages or documents. A link has two ends -- called anchors -- and a direction. The link starts at the "source" anchor and points to the "destination" anchor, which may be any Web resource (e.g., an image, a video clip, a sound bite, a program, an HTML document, an element within an HTML document, etc.).
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.
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The ways of linking a document with another is:-
The HTML <a>
tag defines a hyperlink. It has the following syntax:
<a href="url">link text</a>
The most important attribute of the <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.
Example
This example shows how to create a link to W3Schools.com:
<a href="https://www.w3schools.com/">Visit W3Schools.com!</a>
This link tag can be used to link both local and online files and webpages (shown below).
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):
Example
<h2>Absolute URLs</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.w3.org/">W3C</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/">Google</a></p>
<h2>Relative URLs</h2>
<p><a href="html_images.asp">HTML Images</a></p>
<p><a href="/css/default.asp">CSS Tutorial</a></p>