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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Once you’ve created a couple web pages using HTML, you’ll want to connect them into a larger site. Learn how to link from one page of your site to another, or to any other site on the internet. You can even send your visitors to a specific spot on the page to save them scrolling time.

Linking to Another Web Page

Open your HTML file. Open the HTML file for the page you would like to edit. (If you’re starting from scratch and need some background info, create the document before reading this article.)

• You can also turn an image into a link:
  .
  The user will see the image wikihow_logo.png, and can click the image to visit https://www.wikihow.com/.

• Always surround the URI with quotation marks.
• URIs are case sensitive. [1] X Research source Copy-paste them or type them in exactly as they appear.

• To link to a page in a subfolder, include the new file path. For example, if you’re on the page http://example.edu/about/author.html and want to link to http://example.edu/about/pets/dog.jpg , you can skip everything up to «about:»
  Link text
• To link to a page in a different branch of the site, use «../» to move up to a higher folder. For example, to link from /about/author.html to http://example.edu/writing/books.html , type:
  Link text

Linking Within a Page

• Anchor text.
  This will display as normal text, since it is the destination of a link and not a link itself. You can replace «anchorname» with any name, as long as you don’t use the same name twice on one page.

• Header Text

  Link to this by adding #topheader to the URL.

• Paragraph text

  Link to this by adding #introparagraph to the URL.

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You’ll want to take a look at JavaScript and jQuery for animating and dynamically creating elements on the fly. These programming languages/libraries can let you adjust the content of the link whenever you want (on the viewer’s screen).

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First, you need to find the URL for the webpage you want to link to. In your HTML, you will use this line of code to link to the site. If you want, you could mess with the style and add text to the link.

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You can use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to modify the appearance of a link in all four of its (4) states: Link, Visited, Hover, and Active.

Be sure to remember to close the tag with a corresponding . If you forget to do this, most browsers will change the rest of the page text into a link!

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