HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
Behind
the Scenes
Next, when a user clicks on a link, the browser uses the “href”
attribute to determine the page the link points to.
2
Th
e user
click
s on e
ither
the
“elixi
rs” lin
k or…
I
f “elixirs” was cli
cked, the
b
rowser grabs the
href value
“e
lixir.html”…
Whe
n “det
ailed d
irecti
ons” is
click
ed, th
e brow
ser gr
abs th
e
valu
e of t
he href
attr
ibute,
in
this
case “
direct
ions.ht
ml”…
<a href="elixir.html">elixirs</a>
…and
display
s the
“elixir
.html”
page.
<a href="directions.html">detailed directions</a>
…and
loads
“direc
tions.h
tml”.
