Inserting link

Question

I inserted this in the head tag after giving the title tag => <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Handlee" rel="stylesheet"> , but couldnt open the link in the html document.

Whereas when I inserted this => <a href="https://www.google.com">Visit my HTML tutorial</a> , the link opened well.

Please explain the reason and also the difference between these two insertions

Answer 1

<link> is an 'empty' tag that should only be used in the head section. It's for linking together things that the page needs, not for showing stuff to the end user.

<a></a> is not an empty tag - you can put stuff between the start and end tag. It should only be used in the body section, and you can show stuff to the end user.