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The Anchor Element: Turning Text Into a Link
One element built the web. Learn the href attribute, what makes link text good or useless, the target and rel attributes, and why a link is not a butt...
Links and Navigation
Anchors, absolute and relative URLs, fragment links, download links and menus.
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Absolute, Relative and Root Relative URLs
The same page, three ways to point at it. Learn how a browser resolves each form, when a leading slash saves you, and why one broken dot breaks an ent...
HTML
Fragment Links and In Page Navigation
Link to a spot on the same page with an id and a hash. The basis of tables of contents, skip links, footnotes and back to top links.
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Email, Telephone and Download Links
The href attribute understands more than web pages. mailto, tel and the download attribute turn a link into an email draft, a phone call or a saved fi...
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Building a Navigation Menu
A menu is a list of links inside a nav element. Learn the markup that makes it accessible, how to mark the current page, and how a dropdown should be...