Anchor tag <a> in html
To navigate from page to page or to navigate within the page. HTML provides us an anchor tag.
< a> is use to create Anchor Tag
— Anchor tag allows us to create hyperlink in HTML document.
— Anchor tag allows us to create link button which will help us to navigate from one page to another or to navigate within the page
— Anchor tag has following attributes
— href (click here)
—target (click here)
— name (click here)
— download (click here)
— hreflang (click here)
— type(click here)
There are two types of links
— External Linking
> When we create a link to navigate from one document to another document it is known as external linking.
> href=”https://itvoyagers.in”
— Internal Linking
> When we create a link to navigate with in the page then it is known as internal linking.
> href=”#footerpart”
href attribute
Hypertext reference most important attribute in anchor tag.
In this attribute we have to enter location of the targeted file which we wish to open once the link is click.
If both initial and targeted documents are in same folder then there is no need to specify complete location of target file in href or else we have to enter complete path of the document.
If we want to create inner link then we have to add “#” as a prefix to value.
Syntax : href = “path_of_target_document”
e.g.
External Linking :
href=”https://itvoyagers.in”
Internal Linking :
href=”#footerpart”
Target attribute
Target attribute is use to specify where to open link document.
Target attribute specify has following values.
“_blank” — It will open targeted document in new tab or new window.
“_self” — It will open targeted document in same frame (it is default).
“_parent” — It will open targeted document in parent frame
“_top” — It will open document in full body of window
“framename” — It will open targeted document in named frame
Syntax : target=”value”
e.g. name=”_blank“
name attribute
Name attribute is use to label the section in page.
It is use to create internal link.
We have to specify name attribute’s value in href with “#” prefix to create internal link.
href=”#footerpart”
Syntax : name=”name_of_section”
e.g. name=”footerpart“
download attribute
If we want to allow downloading of file once the link is click the we have to add “download” attribute in anchor tag and we have to specify the path of the file in “href” attribute.
Syntax : download=”boolean_value”
e.g. download=”true“
hreflang attribute
Type attribute is use to specify the type of targeted document
Syntax : hreflang=”language_code”
e.g. hreflang=”en”
type attribute
Type attribute is use to specify the type of targeted document
Syntax : type=”media_type”
e.g. type=”text/html”
