Practice Review: Creating a Simple Webpage

Links

Links are very important – they are what makes the web a web! To add a link, we need to use a simple element – <a> – "a" being the short form for "anchor". To make text within your paragraph into a link, follow these steps:

Choose some text. We chose the text "Mozilla Manifesto".
Wrap the text in an <a> element, as shown below:
```
<a>Mozilla Manifesto</a>
```

Give the <a> element an href attribute, as shown below:

<a href="">Mozilla Manifesto</a>

Fill in the value of this attribute with the web address that you want the link to link to:

<a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/">Mozilla Manifesto</a>

You might get unexpected results if you omit the https:// or http:// part, called the protocol, at the beginning of the web address. After making a link, click it to make sure it is sending you where you wanted it to.

href might appear like a rather obscure choice for an attribute name at first. If you are having trouble remembering it, remember that it stands for hypertext reference.

Add a link to your page now, if you haven't already done so.