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Links and navigation
Links (hyperlinks) are the threads of the Web; they make it possible for visitors to skip from one page to another by one mouse click. Links come in all kinds of colours and shapes, but the original format (in most browsers) is as an underlined text in a different colour.
Besides other pages, it is possible to ‘link’ to other pages, or to different document types, like images and downloadable files.
Anatomy of a link
Link markup uses the a (anchor) element surrounding a text or image. The most important attribute on the <a> tag is the href (hyper reference) attribute; this attribute contains the address (URL) of the linked document. A text or image becomes a link thanks to the <a></a> tags surrounding it.
Example of a link (HTML)
<a href="http://www.google.com/">Search with Google</a>