In HTML, the <a> tag is used to create links. The <a> tag is an anchor tag, and it has an href attribute that specifies the URL of the resource that the link points to.
Here’s an example of an <a> tag used to create a link:
<a href="https://www.example.com">Visit Example.com</a>In this example, the href attribute specifies the URL of the website that the link points to, and the text between the opening and closing <a> tags is the link text that the user clicks on.
The <a> tag can also be used to create links to other resources such as email addresses, phone numbers, or other web pages on the same site. To create a link to an email address, you can use the mailto: protocol in the href attribute. Here’s an example:
<a href="mailto:example@example.com">Send an email to Example</a>In this example, clicking the link will open the user’s default email client with a new message addressed to “example@example.com”.
The <a> tag can also be used to create links to other parts of the same web page using the id attribute. Here’s an example:
<a href="#section-2">Jump to Section 2</a>
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<h2 id="section-2">Section 2</h2>In this example, clicking the link will jump the user to the section of the web page with the id attribute “section-2”.