Making it easy to create text-based HTML hyperlinks for your website.
Making an HTML hyperlink is easy, just add the page you are linking to and the hyperlink text you would like to appear on the page, and then copy the HTML snippet below into your page.
HTML hyperlinks (or 'anchor tags') have been the cornerstone of the world wide web since its inception, allowing users to travel between web pages or sections of the same website. But there is more to them than a simple <a> tag.
This is the URL of the website or web page that you would like your hyperlink to take people to. The link can either be external (to another website) or local (to another page or location on the same website). If your hyperlink is to an external website, be sure to include 'http://' or 'https://' at the start of the URL to ensure the link will work correctly.
This is the clickable text that will appear on your page. A good piece of hyperlink text should be descriptive of what the hyperlink is pointing to. Avoid generic terms like 'Click here' and 'Read more', which tell the user little about what the hyperlink is leading to.
By default an HTML hyperlink will open in the same browser window, but you can optionally choose to have the links open in a new browser tab. This is sometimes preferable for hyperlinks where you wish to keep the previous website open in the background, but can cause usability issues as the user may not realise that a new tab has been opened.
There are also options available for websites which use iFrames: Parent will open the hyperlink in the browser window in which the iFrame is embeded, which Same will open the hyperlink within the iFrame. However, the use of iFrames are deprecated in HTML5, so should be used with caution.
The optional relationship attribute can be used to describe the relationship between the currently open web page and the one that is being linked to. Valid attributes for HTML hyperlinks are:
This option can be used to force the web browser to download the resource being linked to, rather than attempting to open in within a browser window.