HTML tutorial
CSS3 tutorial
Bootstrap tutorial
JavaScript tutorial
JQuery tutorial
AngularJS tutorial
React tutorial
NodeJS tutorial
PHP tutorial
Python tutorial
Python3 tutorial
Django tutorial
Linux tutorial
Docker tutorial
Ruby tutorial
Java tutorial
C tutorial
C ++ tutorial
Perl tutorial
JSP tutorial
Lua tutorial
Scala tutorial
Go tutorial
ASP.NET tutorial
C # tutorial
Links are found in nearly all web pages. Links allow users to click their way from page to page
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.
Note: A link does not have to be text. A link can be an image or any other HTML element!
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.
This example shows how to create a link to W3C:
<a href="/">Visit W3C!</a>
By default, links will appear as follows in all browsers:
Tip: Links can of course be styled with CSS, to get another look!
By default, the linked page will be displayed in the current browser window. To change this, you must specify another target for the link.
The target attribute specifies where to open the linked document.
The target attribute can have one of the following values:
_self - Default. Opens the document in
the same window/tab as it was clicked_blank - Opens the document in a new window or tab_parent - Opens the document in the parent frame_top - Opens the document in the full body of the windowUse target="_blank" to open the linked document in a new browser window or tab:
<a href="/"
target="_blank">Visit w3resource!</a>
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):
<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">HTML Images</a></p>
<p><a href="/css/default">CSS
Tutorial</a></p>
To use an image as a link, just put the <img>
tag inside the <a> tag:
<a href="default">
<img src="smiley.gif" alt="HTML tutorial" style="width:42px;height:42px;">
</a>
Use
mailto: inside the
href attribute to create a link that opens the user's email program (to
let them send a new email):
<a href="mailto:someone@example.com">Send email</a>
To use an HTML button as a link, you have to add some JavaScript code.
JavaScript allows you to specify what happens at certain events, such as a click of a button:
<button
onclick="document.location='default'">HTML Tutorial</button>
Tip: Learn more about JavaScript in our JavaScript Tutorial.
The title attribute specifies extra information about an element.
The information is most often shown as a tooltip text when the mouse moves over the element.
<a href="/html/" title="Go to w3resource HTML
section">Visit our HTML Tutorial</a>
Use a full URL to link to a web page:
<a href="/html/default">HTML tutorial</a>
Link to a page located in the html folder on the current web site:
<a href="/html/default">HTML tutorial</a>
Link to a page located in the same folder as the current page:
<a href="default">HTML tutorial</a>
You can read more about file paths in the chapter HTML File Paths.
<a> element to define a linkhref attribute to define the link addresstarget attribute to define where to open the linked document<img> element (inside <a>)
to use an image as a link
mailto: scheme inside the
href attribute to create a link that opens the user's email program| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <a> | Defines a hyperlink |
For a complete list of all available HTML tags, visit our HTML Tag Reference.