Question from a complete novice about HTML

Question

How come when you use an anchor for Hyperlinks, it’s written as <a and not <a> like every other tag I’ve encountered so far?

Answer 1

Stephen Both are same
<a href = " "> Opening and closing tag will be used for anchor with hyperlink.

Answer 2

You will learn more about this in the course. But for now.

href is an attribute of the <a> tag. It specifies the URL (web address) that the hyperlink points to.

For example:

<a href="https://www.sololearn.com">Sololearn</a>

This creates a clickable link.

However if you only do this.

Example:
<a>Sololearn</a>

You will get a word but it will not be clickable.

Answer 3

Thank you, i didnt realise the whole href was inside the first tag, its not explained why in the super basics