What is it and how to use it for UX

An anchor tag () in HTML is an element that creates a link to web pages, email addresses, documents, images, and more.

It looks like this:

The element begins with “,” ends with “.” And contains several properties that make up the complete tag.

We go into the characteristics below.

You can also use the anchor tag to create anchor links. Anchor links (or “jump” links) link to different sections of the same web page.

When you create text links with the “a” tag, you’ll need to use some sort of anchor text. Anchor text is the part of the link that is clickable. Google uses this text to learn more about the link and the content it refers to.

HTML anchor element properties

You can add different properties to your anchor tags to specify what you want to happen when a user clicks.

And to add semantic meaning for browsers and web crawlers.

Here are the main features:

Href

The “href”, short for hypertext reference, attribute specifies the target for the anchor element.

Like this:

<ahref="URL">

This is commonly used to define the URL of the page to which the tag links. But you can also use it to link to files, email addresses, phone numbers and more.

For example, a link to a web page would use the following piece of code:

<ahref="https://example.com">Website</a>

The href anchor tag is the URL enclosed in quotation marks. And the word “Website” is the anchor text: the visible and clickable text of the link.

Hreflang

The “hreflang” attribute indicates the...