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Posted by Sanif Momin
Sanif Momin
3,875 Points

Making Links in HTML

a normal link is

<a href="#">about us</a>

but while providing links to facebook or some other site its

<a href="www.facebook.com"</a>

does # mean a internal link within the website ???

4 Answers

Christopher Hall
Christopher Hall
9,052 Points

If you need to support older browsers, then you can use the NAME attribute like so:

<a name="aboutus">some text here</a>
<a href="#aboutus">links to section above</a>

Please note that an A tag with just a NAME attribute will not be treated like a link by the browser unless it also has an HREF. In XHTML the ID is checked first before the NAME attribute, and in HTML5 the NAME attribute is deprecated and no longer part of the A tag.

eirikvaa
eirikvaa
18,015 Points
eirikvaa
eirikvaa
18,015 Points

In this link the # symbol is just a placeholder. You're putting it there because you have nothing to link to at that point. When you click it, nothing happens.

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

Here you are linking to a special section of your page, typically another element with that ID.

<a href="#id">This is a link</a>

When you're linking to your "About Us" page, the preferred way is to use relative paths:

<a href="about.html">About Us</a>

When you're linking to a site like Facebook, you must of course use the domain name:

<a href="facebook.com"><a/>
Neill dev
PLUS
Neill dev
Courses Plus Student 23,163 Points
Neill dev
Neill dev
Courses Plus Student 23,163 Points

Hi Sanif, a # doesn't mean an internal link but it is used in the code as below to reference the id tag ised for internal page linking.

Example An anchor with an id inside an HTML document:

<a id="tips">Useful Tips Section</a>

Create a link to the "Useful Tips Section" inside the same document:

<a href="#tips">Visit the Useful Tips Section</a>

Read more about it here

Rgds Neill

Sanif Momin
Sanif Momin
3,875 Points
Sanif Momin
Sanif Momin
3,875 Points

Thanks got it !