Attributes of the <a> Tag

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Attributes of the <a> tag

href attribute

If the value of the href attribute is a URL , it may contain any of the following components:

protocol scheme, typically "http:" or "https:"
host name or IP address
port number, which defaults to 80 for the HTTP protocol
absolute or relative path
search query, indicated by "?"
fragment identifier, indicated by "#"

If the protocol scheme, host name/IP address and port number are omitted the default is the current host - the same server handling the current document. If the path starts with a slash /..., it is an absolute path from the base of the current document, which defaults to the document root directory on the server. A URL with a "#" but no fragment identifier points to the top of the document.


               <a href="#">back to top</a>
               

               <a href="another-page.html">another page</a>
               

               <a href="/another-section/">another section</a>
               

               <a href="http://www.ExampleOnly.com/">Example Only</a>

id attribute

The id attribute

common attributes

In addition to the attributes above, which are specific to the <a> tag, any of the common HTML attributes can also be used.

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