HTML <a> href Attribute

The <a> href attribute is used to set the link i.e. the URL of the page.

Syntax

Following is the syntax −

<a href="URL">

Above, URL is the url you need to mention, which can be a relative link, absolute link, script, protocol, etc.

Example

Let us now see an example to implement the href attribute of the <a> element −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>Learning is Fun</h2>
<p>
Learn the concepts of <a href="https://tutorialspoint.com/java">Java!</a>
Also try JavaScript from our website: <a href="/javascript">JavaScript!</a>
</a>
</p><br>
</body>
</html>

Output

This will produce the following output −

HTML <a> href Attribute

Example

Let us see another example wherein we can set the email-id of a user with a href −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>Learning is Fun</h2>
<p>
Learn the concepts of <a href="https://tutorialspoint.com/java">Java!</a>
Also try JavaScript from our website: <a href="/javascript">JavaScript!</a>
<p>For more tutorials, kindly <a href="mailto:[email protected][email protected]&subject=DEMO EMAIL">EMAIL</a></p>
</a>
</p><br>
</body>
</html>

Output

This will produce the following output −

HTML <a> href Attribute

If you will run the above on a system and click the EMAIL, then it will open the following application for email, which is set as default. Here, we have set the default email application as OUTLOOK −

HTML <a> href Attribute