What does “href” stand for? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Hypertext Reference, From a day where links used to be called "hyperlinks" hypertext is simply link to another big of information, and hypertext reference is the link itself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext

Answer 2

Its stand for Hypertext Reference .

The href attribute specifies the URL of the page the link goes to.

If the href attribute is not present, the tag is not a hyperlink.

Answer 3

It stands for Hypertext Reference

From the source written by Tim Berners-Lee himself.:

"Help" is all that is displayed, with some indication that it is an option. If the user choses (clicks a mouse on, choses by number depending on which client he has) then the client asks the server for /HEPDATA/HELP. ("A" is for "anchor", "HREF" is for "hypertext reference")

Answer 4

href stands for Hypertext REFerence. It is the attribute of the html which gives the URL of the page the link goes to ....

Further information can be obtained from

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt - By Tim Berners Lee http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_href.asp
http://tomayko.com/writings/wtf-is-an-href-anyway

Answer 5

Hypertext REFerence. You can see the link here for more about it -

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/44472/href