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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications Test: Creating an HTML Element

Posted by Muhammed Drammeh
Muhammed Drammeh
471 Points

what is an anchor tag

what is an anchor tag?

index.html 
<!doctype>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My trip to Spain</title>
  </head>
  <body>

    <img alt="A picture of me in Spain" src="images/spain.jpg">
    <p>Here is a picture of me in Spain last summer!</p>
    <a>Go back to the top of the page.</a>

  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Alexander Besse
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Alexander Besse
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Alexander Besse
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Alexander Besse
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Hey, Muhammed Drammeh!

An anchor tag is used to turn elements on the page into links. This can be done with text, or if you wrap the <a> anchor tag around an image, it will turn the picture into a link.

Anchor tags are declared with <a href="LINK">TEXT</a>

You can see more here: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp

Jorge Flores
Jorge Flores
2,207 Points
Jorge Flores
Jorge Flores
2,207 Points

the 'a' tag.

<html>
  <head>
    <title>My trip to Spain</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <img src='images/spain.jpg' alt="A picture of me in Spain">
    <p>Here is a picture of me in Spain last summer!</p>
    <a href='#top'>Go back to the top of the page.</a>

  </body>
</html>