HTML Links

• Links on webpages allow users to click from one page to another
• Link pages together 
• HTML links are called Hyperlinks 
• A Hyperlink is a text or an image that you can click on that will take you to a different page. 
• In HTML, links are defined by the <a> tag 

      <a href="url">This is a link</a>

• The 'href' attribute specifies the link address/location 
• Attributes are used to provide additional information about the element 
• The link text is the only visible part of the link
• This can be text or an image, or any other HTML element 

     When you hover over a link, two things will usually happen:

• The cursor will change to a small hand
• The colour of the link element will change 

     By default links will appear as:

• Unvisited - Underline & Blue
• Visited - Underline & Purple
• Active - Underline & Red