Intro to HTML

Intro to HTML - Links

The most compelling feature of web pages is the ability to click on something (a link) and be "transported" to somewhere else.
For example, clicking on Table of Contents takes you to the Table of Contents for these notes.
Yet links are just another tag - here's what's behind Table of Contents :
```
<a href="index.html">Table of Contents</a>
```
Looking at it piece by piece:
- The tag is <a> - "a" is for "anchor" because historically it referred to a place within the same document.
- The attribute href specifies where to go to when the user clicks on Table of Contents.
If you want to link to someone else's page, you must supply the whole URL (Universal Resource Locator or simply the Location).
Here's an example:
```
<a href="http://www.aims.gov.au">Australian Institute of Marine Science</a>
```
And that's all there is to it!