How do I create a link to a section within the same page in HTML?

The most important attribute of the element is the href attribute, which indicates the link's destination.

The link text is the part that will be visible to the reader.

Clicking on the link text, will send the reader to the specified URL address.

Example

This example shows how to create a link to W3Schools.com:

Visit W3Schools.com!

By default, links will appear as follows in all browsers:

• An unvisited link is underlined and blue
• A visited link is underlined and purple
• An active link is underlined and red

Tip: Links can of course be styled with CSS, to get another look!

HTML Links - The target Attribute

By default, the linked page will be displayed in the current browser window. To change this, you must specify another target for the link.

The target attribute specifies where to open the linked document.

The target attribute can have one of the following values:

• _self - Default. Opens the document in the same window/tab as it was clicked
• _blank - Opens the document in a new window or tab
• _parent - Opens the document in the parent frame
• _top - Opens the document in the full body of the window

Example

Use target="_blank" to open the linked document in a new browser window or tab:

Visit W3Schools!

Absolute URLs vs. Relative URLs

Both examples above are using an absolute URL (a full web address) in the href attribute.

A local link (a link to a page within the same website) is specified with a relative URL (without the "//www" part):

Example

Absolute URLs

W3C

Google

Relative URLs

HTML Images

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HTML Links - Use an Image as a Link

To use an image as a link, just put the 0 tag inside the tag:

Example

To point to a specific part of a web page, you add a pound sign followed by the id name at the end of the url ie. href="/#assign-id" or href="devpractical.com/same-page-internal-link/#add-link"

If you click on the navigation items at the top, you will be able to jump to specific parts of the web page.

Create a link to an element on a different web page.

For you to add a link to a different page, you will need the url of that page and the id value of that section you want to link to. You will then use the full url of the web page and then add the id value at the end of the url. Example:

I want to link to the books section a different page on this website. The url is //devpractical.com/resources/ and the heading is books. I can create a link as follows:

Code:

HTML and CSS books

Result: HTML and CSS books

Create a link to a section of another website.

If you are linking to a different website, you will have to find out if the website has assigned ids to the section you want to link to. You can do this by:

• Inspect Q element.
• Use the select tool.
• Check the html code for id value.

If the element does not have an id value, you cannot link to that section. If it does then you can just add the pound sign and id to the url of the website and you are good to go.

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