Links are used in HTML to connect one web page to another or other resources on the internet.

A link is created using the <a> tag, which stands for anchor.

<a href="url">link text</a>

Within the <a> tag, you specify the destination of the link using the href attribute.

Linking to another web page

The href attribute specifies the URL of the page you want to link to.

 <a href="/anotherpag.html">another page</a>
 <a href="https://www.google.com">Google.com</a>

Linking to a section on the page

But what if you want to link to a specific section of a page? You can do that by adding an anchor tag to the URL.

href attribute specifies the URL of the page we want to link to, followed by a hash symbol (#), and then the ID of the section we want to link to.

<a href="example.com#hero">Open a section</a>

Link that opens in a new tab or window

Next, let's look at how to create links that open in a new tab or window.

To do this, we add the target attribute to the <a> tag, and set it to "_blank".

<a href="zionstack.com" target="_bank">Open in new tab</a>

Linking to Email Addresses

Finally, let's look at how to create links to email addresses. To create a link to an email address, we use the <a> tag with the href attribute set to "mailto:" followed by the email address.

<a href="mailto:example@example.com">Send an Email</a>

And that's it! We've covered the basics of creating links in HTML.