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HTML Links: How to create Links to other Web Pages

This article explains how to create a link from one page to another. It also outlines the different types of hyperlinks.

Links, otherwise known as , are defined using the tag — otherwise known as the element.

Hypertext references can use URLS, URLs, or URLs.

This refers to a URL where the full path is provided. For example:

This refers to a URL where the path, relative to the current location, is provided.

For example, if we want to reference the https://www.quackit.com/html/tutorial/ URL, and our current location is https://www.quackit.com/html/ , we would use this:

This refers to a URL where the path, relative to the domain’s root, is provided.

For example, if we want to reference the https://www.quackit.com/html/tutorial/ URL, and the current location is https://www.quackit.com/html/ , we could use this:

The forward slash indicates the domain’s root. No matter where your file is located, you can always use this method to specify the path, even if you don’t know what the domain name will eventually be (as long as you know the full path from the root).

Link Targets

You can nominate whether to open the URL in a new window or the current window. You do this with the target attribute. For example, target=»_blank» opens the URL in a new window.

The target attribute can have the following possible values:

_blank	Opens the URL in a new browser window.
_self	Loads the URL in the current browser window.
_parent	Loads the URL into the parent frame (still within the current browser window). This is only applicable when using frames.
_top	Loads the URL in the current browser window, but cancelling out any frames. Therefore, if frames were being used, they aren’t any longer.

Jump Links

You can make your links «jump» to other sections within the same page (or another page). These used to be called «named anchors», but they’re often referred to as jump links, bookmarks, or fragment identifiers.

Here’s how to link to the same page:

Add an ID to the Link Target

Add an ID to the part of the page that you want the user to end up. To do this, use the id attribute. The value should be some short descriptive text. The id attribute is a commonly used attribute in HTML.

Create the Hyperlink

Now create the hyperlink (that the user will click on). This is done by using the id of the link target, preceded by a hash ( # ) symbol:

So these two pieces of code are placed in different parts of the document. Something like this:

It doesn’t have to be the same page. You can use this method to jump to an ID of any page. To do this, simply add the destination URL before the hash ( # ) symbol. Example:

Of course, this assumes that there’s an ID with that value on the page.

Email Links

You can create a hyperlink to an email address. To do this, use the mailto attribute in your anchor tag.

Clicking on this link should result in your default email client opening up with the email address already filled out.

You can go a step further than this. You can auto-complete the subject line for your users, and even the body of the email. You do this appending subject and body parameters to the email address.

Base href

You can specify a default URL for all links on the page to start with. You do this by placing the base tag (in conjunction with the href attribute) in the document’s .

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How to create links to sections on the same page in HTML

Hyperlinks are utilized by a web browser to move from one page to another. However, you can also move to a different area on the same page. The following sections show you how to link to the top, bottom, or a specific section on a web page. Choose a method from the following list, or explore both options.

Today, all browsers still recognize «#» as a viable way of moving to the top or bottom of a page. However, this method is deprecated and may not work in future versions of HTML (hypertext markup language). We suggest using the id method instead as it is more current and versatile.

Using #top or #bottom

The following examples use #top and #bottom with the tag and href attribute to link to that section of the page. This method is similar to using «id,» but you don’t have to pick a specific element. Click «Top» or «Bottom» in the Results section to see what happens.

Examples

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Using the id selector

In CSS (cascading style sheets), «id» is a selector that is used to designate an area that a link should point to, similar to anchor in HTML. The nice thing about using id is you can create a link to any element on the page, rather than only the top or bottom. In the following sections, we show you how to apply id to an HTML tag, and then how to link to it. The following two examples link to the opening paragraph at the top of this page.

Use the #id selector

id="opening">Hyperlinks are utilized by a web browser to move from one page to another.
 

Create a link to the selector

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Use the #id selector from another page

You can also jump to a specific part of another web page by adding #selector to the page’s URL (uniform resource locator).

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Complete HTML page code example

The following code shows how both the #top and #bottom anchors and the id selector can all be used on the same page.

    
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href="#bottom">Bottom
 
id="opening">Here is an introductory paragraph with the selector 'opening' attached to it.
 
A lot of text that causes scrolling goes here.
 
href="#opening">Jump to opening
 
href="#top">Top
  

Related information

• How to create an HTML link on a web page.
• How to create a link that opens a new web page window or tab.
• See our hyperlink definition for further information and related links to this term.
• HTML and web design help and support.

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HTML Links

Links are found in nearly all web pages. Links allow users to click their way from page to page.

HTML Links — Hyperlinks

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!

HTML Links — Syntax

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:

By default, links will appear as follows in all browsers:

• An unvisited link is underlined and blue
• A visited link is underlined and purple
• An active link is underlined and red

Tip: Links can of course be styled with CSS, to get another look!

HTML Links — The target Attribute

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 window

Example

Use target=»_blank» to open the linked document in a new browser window or tab:

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

Absolute URLs

W3C

Google

Relative URLs

HTML Images

CSS Tutorial

HTML Links — Use an Image as a Link

To use an image as a link, just put the tag inside the tag:

Example

Link to an Email Address

Use mailto: inside the href attribute to create a link that opens the user’s email program (to let them send a new email):

Example

Button as a Link

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:

Example

Tip: Learn more about JavaScript in our JavaScript Tutorial.

Link Titles

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.

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How to make page links in HTML Page?

A link is a connection from one Web page to another web page.

To create page links in an HTML page, we need to use the href attribute of the and tag. Make sure that the tag is placed with in the … tags.

The link text is visible. Clicking on the link text will navigate to the specified URL address. By default, links will appear as follows on the web page of the browser.

• An unvisited link is underlined and blue
• A visited link is underlined and purple
• An active link is underlined and red

Syntax

Following is the syntax to make a page link on the web page.

Example

Following example program to make a page link on the web document.

DOCTYPE html> html> body> h1>HTML Article on Links h1> p>a href="https://www.Google.com/">Click this to navigate to the Google home pagea>p> body> html> 
 

Following is the output for the unvisited link. When we click on the link it will navigate us to the home page of the google search engine. Thus, the link will get visited and appear underlined and purple.

Example

In the example below, we linked the official page of tutorialspoint on the web document.

DOCTYPE html> html> head> title>HTML Linkstitle> head> body> h1>Click the link below and navigate the official page of tutorialspointh1> a href="https://www.tutorialspoint.com/index.htm">TUTORIALSPOINTa> body> html> 
 

If we click on the link it will redirect you to the destination page. When we click on the link it will navigate us to the home page of the webpage of tutorialspoint.

Using an image as a Hyperlink

We can add an image as link and other HTML elements as a link.

Syntax

Following is the syntax to add an image as a link on the web page.

Example

Following is the example program to make an image as a link.

DOCTYPE html> html> body> h1>HTML Article on Links h1> p>a href="https://www.Google.com/">img src="https://www.tutorialspoint.com/javafx/images/javafx-mini-logo.jpg" style="width:50px;height:50px;">a>p> body> html> 
 

Following is the output for the image as a link, clicking on the image will navigate us to the google home page.

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