Hyperlinking is likely one of the single most important features of the World Wide Web. A hyperlink is created with the <A> tag, and in it's most basic form, it only requires a single attribute, the href attribute.

For instance, a simple link tag would look like this:

<a href="http://www.htmlpedia.net/">Visit htmlpedia.net</a>

And the result would look like this in the browser:

Visit htmlpedia.net

Using the title attribute

The title attribute can be used to give more information about the destination of the link. The text will be shown when the user hovers the mouse over links in most modern browsers. Here's an example:

<a href="http://www.htmlpedia.net/" title="htmlpedia.net has the most comprehensive HTML reference online!">Visit htmlpedia.net</a>

To see how it looks, hover your mouse over this link:

Visit htmlpedia.net

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