11. Creating Hyperlinks (The Anchor Tag <a>)

Hyperlinks (or links) are the 'HyperText' part of HTML, connecting documents together. The anchor tag, <a>, is used to create them.

11.1 Essential Attributes: href

The most important attribute for the anchor tag is href (Hypertext Reference), which specifies the destination URL.

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11.2 Opening Links in a New Tab

To prevent the user from leaving your site when clicking an external link, use the target attribute set to _blank.

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11.3 Email Links

Use mailto: in the href to prompt the user's email client to open, pre-addressed to the specified email.

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