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

Posted by Muhammed Drammeh
Muhammed Drammeh
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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
Alexander Besse
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 30,698 Points

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
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Jorge Flores
Jorge Flores
2,206 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>