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All you Need to Know About “a” tag in HTML

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Redirecting someone to another page or redirecting content to your webpage is a very good way to keep things interactive. This can be made possible by the “a tag in HTML”. Let’s understand this in the following manner:

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What is a tag in HTML?

    A link is specified using HTML <a> tag. This tag is also known as anchor tag and anything inside this opening <a> tag and closing </a> tag becomes the part of the link and the user can just click that part and can reach to that linked content or document. This <a> is the simple tag to use and is as follows:

    
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    		<head>
    			<title> Link HTML</title
    			<base href="http://www.edureka.com/">
    		</head>
    		<body>
    		<p> Click any of the following links.</p>
    		<a href="/html/index.htm" target="_blank"> Opens in new </a> |
    		<a href="/html/index.htm" target="_self"> Opens in self </a> |
    		<a href="/html/index.htm" target="_parent"> Opens in parent </a> |
    		<a href="/html/index.htm" target="_top"> Opens in body </a>
    		</body>
    </html>
    
    

     

     

    Options in a Tag

    You can provide a lot of options in this a tag in HTML. Below are some of them

    OptionDescription
    _blankA linked document is opened in a new tab or new window.
    _selfA linked document is opened in the same frame.
    _parentA linked document is opened in the parent frame.
    _topA linked document is opened in the full body of the window.
    targetframeA linked document is opened in a named targetframe.

    Example for the basic understanding the difference in few options given for target attribute of a tag.

     

    Example

    
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    		<head>
    			<title> Link HTML</title
    		</head>
    		<body>
    		<h2> HTML Links</h2>
    		<a href="https://www.google.co.in/" target="_blank"> Google </a>
    		</body>
    </html>
    
    

    Output:

    a tag in html

     

    Example 2:

    
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    		<head>
    			<title> Link HTML</title
    		</head>
    		<body>
    		<h2> HTML Links</h2>
    		<a href="https://www.youtube.com/" target="_blank"> Youtube </a>
    		</body>
    </html>
    
    

    Output:

    google link

     

    With this, we come to an end of this a tag in HTML article. I hope you understood what an anchor tag is. There are 3 of them at the beginning of this article as well.

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