What is a link?
HTML link creates a connection between one web resource and another web resource. Generally any link has two ends, an anchor and direction. The link starts at a "source" anchor and points to a "destination" anchor, which may be a web resource such as a sound byte, or an image, or a video clip, and may even be a program. That is, an HTML document or an element within an HTML document. There are many social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, instagram, etc. all of them link an image to a URL or text to a URL, etc.
HTML Text Links
In HTML, a text link is a hyperlink that allows you to navigate from one web page to another or to different resources on the internet. It's a fundamental element for building the structure of the web and providing navigation between web pages. Text links are typically displayed as underlined or differently colored text that a user can click on to access another web page or resource.
The basic structure of an HTML text link is created using the a (anchor) tag, and it looks like this:
<a href="https://www.tutorialspoint.com">Click here to visit Tutorialspoint.com</a>
In this example:
a is the anchor element, and it's used to define a hyperlink.
href is an attribute that specifies the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the page or resource you want to link to. In this case, it's "https://www.tutorialspoint.com."
The text "Click here to visit tutorialspoint.com" is the visible part of the link, also known as the anchor text. When a user clicks on this text, it will take them to the URL specified in the href attribute.
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