What is Anchor Tag ? how it works with example ? by 124 study // jot chahal

Anchor Tag : <a>...</a>

This tag is used to link our webpage to other webpages mainly with the help of "href" attribute.

There are different types of links:

1. Absolute Link:
   These are the links which are fully qualified as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), they are present on the Web already. Ex. https://www.google.co.in
2. Relative Link:
   These are the links which are related to our own document and these types of links are the part of our website.
3. Internal Link:
   It is used to navigate from one portion of our webpage to other portion of our webpage.

Attributes for the Anchor Tag:

1. href:
   It stands for hyperlink reference, it is used to add link to our Webpage.
2. target:
   It is used in case of links, it helps if we want to open our link in a new tab orInthe same tab in which we are working.
3. download:It is a attribute which is used to download a file which is attached in our webpage just by clicking on it.It works only when href attribute is also used.