Create a Link Using the href Attribute

Learning Goals

• Write an a tag to create a link

Introduction

We've got our HTML tags, and we've got our HTML tag attributes. How do we use them together? We can figure it out by exploring the a tag and creating a link.

Getting Started

Fork and clone this lesson into your local environment. Navigate into its directory in the terminal, then run code . to open the files in Visual Studio Code.

Write an a Tag to Create a Link

Open index.html in your text editor. Add an a tag with the inner text (the text between the <a> tag and the </a> tag) of Flatiron School anywhere in the file. Then set the href attribute of your new link element to https://flatironschool.com.

Check your progress by running learn test. Failing tests will provide helpful error messages that you can use to debug your code — read them closely for hints!

Don't forget to open the index.html file in your browser so you can see the changes as you go.

Conclusion

Here we saw how an attribute helps the a tag do its job, which is to link to another location. Now we can go on to explore some additional HTML tags.

Resources

• Mozilla Developer Network: HTML <a> Tag