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    Document foundations

    • What is HTML?
    • Metadata and language
    • Attributes and character references
    • Headings, paragraphs and formatting

    Content and media

    • Links
    • Images
    • Lists
    • Tables
    • Responsive images and media

    Forms

    • Forms and inputs
    • Grouping form controls
    • Form validation and submission

    Structure and accessibility

    • Semantic HTML
    • Keyboard and screen-reader access
    • Disclosure with details
    • Project: your profile page
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    Content and media · Lesson 5 of 16

    Links

    Connect pages with <a>.

    6 minutes3 games

    Links use <a>, and where they go is in an attribute called href. Attributes are extra information written inside the opening tag: name="value".

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    <p>Visit <a href="https://www.seacode.tech">SeaCode</a> to learn more.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wikipedia.org" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> opens in a new tab.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:hello@example.com">Email us</a></p>

    Important

    Use links for navigation and buttons for actions. Descriptive link text is better than “click here”.

    Interview question

    Where does href="#details" go?

    target="_blank" opens the link in a new tab. Use it for other sites only.

    Complete the code

    Complete the link so it goes to google.com.

    <a ="https://google.com">Google</>

    Quick question

    You want a link to open in a new tab. What do you add?

    Exercise

    Make a link that says GitHub and goes to https://github.com.

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    Learn more from
    • MDN: HTML referencedeveloper.mozilla.org
    • web.dev: linksweb.dev
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