a tag

<a> (Anchor Tag)

Explanation

a tag mentions a hyperlink, which a user can use to move from one page to another.

Links by default will appear as follows:
1] Active link - Underlined and appears in red color.
2] Visited link - Underlined and displayed in purple color.
3] Unvisited link - Underlined and shown in blue color.
Element Specific attributes supported by this tag are:

Attribute	Value	Description
href	url	Indicates the URL of the link page.
hreflang	language_code	Mentions about lang of document available in the link page.
media	media_query	Defines the media/device, for which the link is optimized.
rel	bookmark, license, alternate, help, next, nofollow, prefetch, noreferrer, tag, prev, search, author	Reveals the connection between current page and link.
target	_top,_blank,_parent,_self, framename	Indicates where to open the link.
type	mime_type	Mentions MIME type of the linked document.

The above mentioned "Element Specific" attributes will function only when the "href" attribute is inserted in <a>.

Example Code 1:

<a href="http://www.greatstatistics.com/">Great Statistics</a>

Result 1:

Great Statistics

Example Code 2:

http://hioxindia.com/support/scp/
<a rel="prev" href="http://www.withfriendship.com/">Withfriendship</a>

Result 2:

Withfriendship

Example Code 3:

<a target="_blank" href="//www.hscripts.com">Hscripts</a>

Result 3:

Hscripts

In HTML 4.01, <a> was used as both hyperlink & anchor.
"_blank" value of target attribute helps to open a link in new window of a browser.
"self" value of target attribute is used to open a link in same page.

It is available in previous versions of HTML.
It supports both Global Attributes and Event Attributes in HTML5.