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title: Href Attribute
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## Href Attribute

Href is short for "Hypertext Reference" and is an HTML attribute.  The href attribute is mainly used for `<a>` tags to specify the URL for a webpage the link leads to (whether it be on a different section of the same page, or on a completely different webpage).  

#### How to use
`<a href="URL"></a>`

#### Examples
```html
<a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org">This is an absolute URL</a>

<a href="index.html">This is a relative URL</a>
```
#### Another use
`<a href="#top">Go to top</a>`

#### Description
It will take you to that position in the page where `id="top"` is given.


#### More Information:
[W3Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_href.asp)

[HTMLElementReference](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a)