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title: Href Attribute
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## Href Attribute
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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).  
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#### How to use
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`<a href="URL"></a>`
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#### Examples
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```html
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<a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org">This is an absolute URL</a>
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<a href="index.html">This is a relative URL</a>
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```
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#### More Information:
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[W3Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_href.asp)
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[HTMLElementReference](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a)
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