Links are called hyper or anchor links on web pages.

Anchor links on a web page allow you to link to content on the same page or a different page.

These support navigating to different sections/URLs of web resources.

Here is an example of writing anchor links using an HTML tag

<a href="about.html">About<a>

Mainly, It contains two parts - the first is the page name URL, and the second name is the display text.

Links is created with the below syntax in Markdown.

[Link text](linkurl)

Link text wrapped in square brackets([]) followed by link URL with parenthesis.

Many types of links can be created in Markdown.

  • Inline Links
  • Relative Links
  • mailto Links
  • Reference Links

External links are links pointing to an external domain. Inline links contain text displayed to the user enclosed in square brackets []. and link URL enclosed in parentheses (). Links Url is an absolute URL like domainname. Extension.

[links text](Links Url)

Generated HTML is

<a href="#">links text</a>

And the output is [links text](#)

relative links are used for links within the same domain. For example, relative URLs are /about It contains without HTTP and website.com/about

[links text](relative Url)

example

[About Us](/about)

Generated HTML is

<a href="/about">About Us</a>

Sometimes we want to navigate sections or parts of a document on the same webpage.

[go to heading](#heading)

On the webpage, You will have

<a name="heading">
   My Heading
</a>

mailto links are used to include a link with an email address. to add email address links with markdown markup, Link contains mailto with colon and email address The syntax

[Contact Us](mailto:[email protected])

and output:

Contact Us

It link defines the link text with names. These names are referenced and mapped with the URL

It is reference links [emphasis tutorials][myexample]

[myexample]: /file/markdown-emphasis "markdown emphasis tutorials"

Output:

It is reference links emphasis tutorials

markup can also contain links with title text Add title text enclosed in double quotes in parents including link URL

Links title example [example link](URL "link title text")

Output Links title example [example link](URL "link title text")

There is no way to open a new window with standard markdown syntax.

You can use a simple anchor tag like this below

<a href="url" target="_blank">link</a>

Some implementations like kramdown use the below syntax

[link](url){:target="_blank"}