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								title: Href
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								## Href
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								Hypertext Reference (HREF) is an HTML attribute that you use to specify a link destination or Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Most commonly you will see the HREF attribute paired with an anchor tag `<a>`.
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								The HREF attribute gets the exact meaning of a link depending on the element that is using it. For instance when using with the `<a>` tag, it is referencing the location of an object express as a URL. When using the HREF attribute with the `<image>` tag, the HREF attribute is referencing the URL of the image to render.
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								### Examples:
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								Link to Google's Homepage:
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								  -> The text "Visit Google's Homepage acts like the link to the Homepage
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								<a href="https://www.google.com">Visit Google’s Homepage</a>
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								Image as an Link:
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								  -> Google Logo that refers to Google's Homepage
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								```html
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								<a href="https://www.google.com">
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								<img border="0" alt="Google" src="https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2015/googles-new-logo-5078286822539264.3-hp2x.gif" width="100" height="100">
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								```
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								Tags that use HREF:
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								```html
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								<a>
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								<area>
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								<base>
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								<cursor>
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								<discard>
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								<feImage>
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								<hatch>
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								<image>
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								<link>
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								<mesh>
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								<meshgradient>
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								<mpath>
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								<pattern>
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								<script>
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								<textPath>
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								<use>
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								#### More Information:
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								<!-- Please add any articles you think might be helpful to read before writing the article -->
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								<a href='https://tomayko.com/blog/2008/wtf-is-an-href-anyway' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>WTF is a href anyway</a>
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								<a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/href' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>MDN</a>
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