Sunday, April 27, 2014

Make an HTML Hyperlink

HTML means Hyper Text Markup Language. It is used to make web pages. In HTML there are tags. The tags tell a web browser how to display a part of a page. A tag has a name, which is a keyword. A keyword is a word that is used by HTML itself. It has meaning to the language. The tag name is in angle brackets. It is the first word in the bracket.

A tag may have attributes. An attribute comes after the tag name. It has a name, then and
equals sign, then the value of the attribute. The value of the attribute must be inside
quotation marks:


. In this example, there is a link tag. A hyperlink sends a user to another page, when it is clicked. The tag name is a. The tag name is followed by an attribute, href. The href attribute of a hyperlink specifies where the user will go when they click on it.

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