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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Organize with Unordered Lists

linzhang5
linzhang5
2,398 Points
Posted by linzhang5
linzhang5
2,398 Points

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Hey I am a little confused about the use of anchor element here. Could anyone explain it further for me? When and how to use this element and what does href for? Such as this line< a href ="index.html"> </a> Thank you so much for your help!!!

2 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Hi there.

The anchor tag <a></a> should go inside the list item elements of an unordered list. It's the element for creating hyperlinks so you can link pages together.

So it's an anchor element that does inside list item element (i.e. a child of a list item element) which is a child of an unordered list element.

Hope this helps :)

Mike Schaming
Mike Schaming
13,925 Points
Mike Schaming
Mike Schaming
13,925 Points

Hi!

In addition to the info Jonathan provided, the href stands for Hypertext Reference-

In your code, the anchor will take users back to the index.html page. This is handy if they are navigating around other pages And want to return home.

Take care-