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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Adding a New Web Page Set up an HTML Document

Posted by Shmuel Zilberman
Shmuel Zilberman
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whats the difference between class href in the html

whats the difference between class href in the html

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Matt Brock
Matt Brock
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Matt Brock
Matt Brock
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The class attribute allows you to set a value that you can "hang" CSS styles onto, while the href attribute is used on anchor tags (a) and others to link to a webpage, file, email address, and more. Here are a couple articles that will help:

Anchor element attributes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#Attributes

The class attribute: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/class