A user can easily follow, jump to, and be directed to the destination by either clicking, tapping on, or hovering over the link. For versions of HTTP that define a Link header,

user agents should handle these headers exactly as LINK

elements in the document. HTTP 1.1 as defined by [RFC2616] does not

include a Link header field (refer to section 19.6.3). The examples below illustrate how language information, media types, and

Internationalization and links

link types may be combined to improve document handling by search engines. Armed with this additional knowledge, user agents should be able to avoid

presenting “garbage” to the user.

And when you use them correctly for internal links—links from one page on your site to another page on your site—they can provide SEO benefits, too. Hyperlinks are being implemented in various 3D virtual world networks, including those that use the OpenSimulator[8] and Open Cobalt[9] platforms. The above example will link to different parts of the site – the ‘Home’ page, ‘Services’, ‘Pricing’, and ‘About’, in that order. Writing only the name of the file is enough because all the work is shared in the same work folder. When that happens, the to field is already filled out with the email address of where you want to send it to. Links can do other actions aside from just linking to another page or website.

The target attribute specifies where to open the linked document. By combining the tag with the href attribute, we can effortlessly establish connections between web pages. Whether you’re a seasoned web developer or a novice, you’ll find the process both intuitive and accessible. Read about HTML tags to understand the tags used in hyperlinks. In the following example, we use the hreflang attribute to tell search

What is a Hyperlink? HTML Links Explained with Examples

engines where to find Dutch, Portuguese, and Arabic versions of a document. Note the use of the charset attribute for the Arabic manual.

Relative URIs are

HTML Links – Syntax

resolved according to a base URI, which

may come from a variety of sources. The BASE element allows authors to specify a document’s base URI explicitly. User agents may save time by retrieving from the network only those style

sheets that apply to the current device. By far the most common use of a link is to retrieve another Web

resource, as illustrated in the previous examples.

Anchor hyperlinks, also known as fragment identifiers, direct users to a specific section within a web page. By linking to designated anchors, users can quickly access relevant content without scrolling extensively. According to a report by StatCounter, hyperlinks account for over 70% of user navigation across the web, highlighting their indispensable role in online interactions. Hyperlinks in HTML are the building blocks of this virtual ecosystem, allowing users to explore the boundless expanses of the internet. In this blog let’s understand what is hyperlinks, their types, and how to create hyperlinks in HTML in detail. In HTML, links and references to external images, applets, form-processing

programs, style sheets, etc. are always specified by a URI.

Adding a relationship to your links helps search engines and browsers understand the connection between the linked document and the current one. Now that you know how to code a basic link, let’s dive into additional attributes and values you can add to your HTML link code. The W3C recommendation called XLink describes hyperlinks that offer a far greater degree of functionality than those offered in HTML. These extended links can be multidirectional, remove linking from, within, and between XML documents. It can also describe simple links, which are unidirectional and therefore offer no more functionality than hyperlinks in HTML. Email Links allow us to create hyperlinks to an email address.

Semrush’s Site Audit tool can check your website for links with non-descriptive anchor text. In a typical web browser, this would display as the underlined word “Example” in blue, which when clicked would take the user to the example.com website. A fat link (also known as a “one-to-many” link, an “extended link”[5] or a “multi-tailed link”)[6] is a hyperlink which leads to multiple endpoints; the link is a set-valued function. Hyperlink is embedded into a text or an image and takes visitors to another part of a web page.

Webgraph is a graph, formed from web pages as vertices and hyperlinks, as directed edges. Hyperlink is embedded into an image and makes this image clickable. An inline link displays remote content without the need for embedding the content. The remote content may be accessed with or without the user following the link.

It specifies the destination of the link—in this case, Semrush’s homepage. A link from one domain to another is said to be outbound from its source anchor and inbound to its target. HTML links have various attributes that you can use to provide more speicifc information. To fully understand link targets, you need to understand URLs and file paths.

The link type of the first link is “prev” and that of the second is “next”

• The fragment is generally a portion of text or a heading, though not necessarily.
• In the following example, we tell search engines where to find the front

  page of a collection of documents.

• For example, there are links that pop up and open the default email program and start a new email to a specified address.
• However, authors may insert

  links in their documents that express other relationships between resources

  than simply “activate this link to visit that related resource”.

• Armed with this additional knowledge, user agents should be able to avoid

  presenting “garbage” to the user.

(two of several recognized link types). Links specified by LINK are not rendered with the document’s

contents, although user agents may render them in other ways (e.g., as

navigation https://www.globalcloudteam.com/ tools). Creation of new windows is probably the most common use of the “target” attribute. To prevent accidental reuse of a window, the special window names “_blank” and “_new” are usually available, and always cause a new window to be created.

Inline CSS works when you need to make one hyperlink look different than the rest. With the “aria-label” you can add more context behind the “read more” link. This way, users won’t be caught off guard when an unexpected application opens. It’s usually best for links to open in the same tab for accessibility reasons.

You can change this, however, by adding different CSS styles. When you click on one of them, you leave the search page and go to the result. You can read more about file paths in the chapter HTML

File Paths. To use an HTML button as a link, you have to add some JavaScript code. Clicking on the link text, will send the reader to the specified URL address. Please consult the appendix for more information about

non-ASCII characters in URI

attribute values.

It was soon eclipsed by HTML after the 1993 release of the Mosaic browser (which could handle Gopher links as well as HTML links). HTML’s advantage was the ability to mix graphics, text, and hyperlinks, unlike Gopher, which just had menu-structured text and hyperlinks. HTML hyperlinks are the fundamental elements that connect the vast web of information, enabling seamless navigation and exploration. Not only persons browsing the document may follow hyperlinks.

These hyperlinks may also be followed automatically by programs. A program that traverses the hypertext, following each hyperlink and gathering all the retrieved documents is known as a Web spider or crawler. Since links may point to documents encoded with different character encodings, the A and LINK

elements support the charset attribute.

Inline CSS lets you add styling right into the HTML code for a single element. This tells search engines that the link is part of an advertising/sponsorship collaboration. As with the email attribute, make sure the user knows a phone call or text message will initiate when clicked. Just make sure your anchor text indicates an email application will open from clicking the link. Something like “Email us” or “Send an email” conveys the message clearly. Here, you include a link to the media (an image in this case) instead of anchor text.