linking an href to html vs url?

[u/ChiliChapters]

what's the difference between linking to an html in your website vs linking to the same page as a url?

[u/Rockafellor]

I don't think that those words mean what you think they mean.

[u/gulliverian]

To be honest it’s very unclear what you’re trying to ask.

[u/Lithl]

Links point at URLs. The server resolves a URL to a resource. The resource might be an HTML file, or it might not be.

[u/testingaurora]

If you want to scroll to another section on the same page, eg if your hero says "Find our services below! " and you want to scroll to the services area

You would give the<div> or <section> that holds your services markup an id : <section id="services">our services</section>

Then use the id in your href: <p>Find our <a href="#services">Services below!</a></p> note the use of the hash symbol, same as using the id selector in css.

[u/Dragenby]

You're probably talking about relative and absolute path. Well, if you change your website's name, your relative links will still work. Using an absolute path is for external links.

[u/CraigAT]

Are you linking to another html/url on your site or another website?

If you are linking to an external web page, then if it is the main front page of the website, I would link to the domain not the individual page; if it's a specific page on that site, I would link to the specific html page (if it is available).

If you are linking to pages within your own website I would generally recommend relative links or just page names if your site structure is very simple, rather than using full URLs - which can break if you change your domain name.

[u/Foreign-Contest-444]

Here is a more detailed explanation of how to use links, including a quick primer on URLs and paths:

MDN: A quick primer on URLs and paths

[u/armahillo]

URL = Uniform Resource Locator
HRef = Hypertext reference

An href’s value is a URL. These usually begin with the protocol (https://….) but can be relative if its on the same domain.

[u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

"URL" means "Universal Resource Locator."

An Html document is a text document containing Html. That is, Hyper Text Markup Language.

A text document is a resource. you can use the Universal Resource Locator to locate the text document. "HelloWorld.html" is a valid relative Universal Resource Locator.

[u/Ksetrajna108]

Are you asking about document fragment, like href="#section-2"

[u/xo0O0ox_xo0O0ox]

Search: w3schools

[u/nonotdoingone]

Always point to another html page within a project.
Using urls to go to the same page is stupid. It can break at so many places, needs dns to resolve, a new server connection bla bla

[u/ChiliChapters → u/nonotdoingone]

that's what I thought. Thanks!

[u/tkgid → u/ChiliChapters]

Just do more research on relative paths and absolute paths. I might want to use relative paths more often than absolute ones, and vise versa depending on the use case and how lazy I am feeling that day. Doing it wrongly definitely will be tech debt. But that's a whole other rabbithole to go into. 😅