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HTML Links

Text Links

Linking Documents

A link is specified using HTML tag <a>. This tag is called anchor tag and anything between the opening <a> tag and the closing </a> tag becomes part of the link and a user can click that part to reach to the linked document. Following is the simple syntax to use <a> tag.

<a href = "Document URL" ... attributes-list>Link Text</a>

The target Attribute

This attribute is used to specify the location where linked document is opened. Following are the possible options −

  1. _blank

Opens the linked document in a new window or tab.

  1. _self

Opens the linked document in the same frame.

  1. _parent

Opens the linked document in the parent frame.

  1. _top

Opens the linked document in the full body of the window.

  1. targetframe

Opens the linked document in a named targetframe.

Use of Base Path

When you link HTML documents related to the same website, it is not required to give a complete URL for every link. You can get rid of it if you use <base> tag in your HTML document header. This tag is used to give a base path for all the links. So your browser will concatenate given relative path to this base path and will make a complete URL.

Setting Link Colors

You can set colors of your links, active links and visited links using link, alink and vlink attributes of <body> tag.

Download Links

You can create text link to make your PDF, or DOC or ZIP files downloadable. This is very simple; you just need to give complete URL of the downloadable file.

Image Links

It's simple to use an image as hyperlink. We just need to use an image inside hyperlink at the place of text.

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

   <head>
      <title>Image Hyperlink Example</title>
   </head>
	
   <body>
      <p>Click following link</p>
      <a href = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com" target = "_self"> 
         <img src = "/images/logo.png" alt = "Tutorials Point" border = "0"/> 
      </a>
   </body>
	
</html>

Email Links

HTML Email Tag

HTML <a> tag provides you option to specify an email address to send an email. While using tag as an email tag, you will use mailto: email address along with href attribute. Following is the syntax of using mailto instead of using http.

<a href = "mailto: [email protected]">Send Email</a>

Default Settings

You can specify a default email subject and email body along with your email address. Following is the example to use default subject and body.

<a href = "mailto:[email protected]?subject = Feedback&body = Message">
Send Feedback
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