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Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 416 PointsAre href elements always in an anchor element like: <a href="#top">?
Are they always between an anchor element or can they be between other elements?
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,198 PointsAn href is an optional attribute of an anchor (<a>) element, and giving it one turns the anchor into a hyperlink. It is also a required attribute of a <link> element, which gives a page access to external resources such as CSS stylesheets.
For more details, see this MDN page on the Anchor element and this one on the External Resource Link element.