The Anchor Tag and the Href Attribute
HTML uses the <a> (anchor) tag to create a link to another
document. An
anchor can point to any resource on the Web: an HTML page, an
image, a sound file, a movie, etc.
The syntax of creating an anchor:
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<a href="url">Text
to be displayed</a>
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The <a> tag is used to create an anchor to link from, the
href attribute is used to address the document to link to, and
the words between the open and close of the anchor tag will be
displayed as a hyperlink.
This anchor defines a link to Hostedware:
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<a href="http://www.hostedware.com/">Click
here to visit Hostedware's home page</a>
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The line above will look like this in a browser:
The Target Attribute
With the target attribute, you can define where the linked document
will be opened.
The line below will open the document in a new browser window:
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<a href=http://www.w3schools.com/
target="_blank">Visit Hostedware!</a>
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