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I just realized that href stands for hyper reference.

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  • 11
    Thank you, really
  • 10
    Two years of HTML and I never wondered this.
    Why?
  • 4
    @Scooter Hyper Hyper
  • 4
    @Forside Now it's a Hyper Hyper-Reference
  • 2
    @BennySama hhref sounds way better indeed.
  • 1
    Thank you!
  • 1
    What about <a>? Does anybody know what it stands for?
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  • 1
    @Forside what does an anchor have to do with hyperlinks?
  • 3
    @Gnu-Not-Unix You can give <a> tags a name and putting #name-of-a-tag onto the end of the url will automatically scroll you to that anchor. So it's a fixed position on the page where you can navigate to. Don't know the history behind this also being used for links. Probably because it's also a method for navigating to another location.
  • 2
    @Gnu-Not-Unix Guess it was intended to be both, an anchor on the page where you can navigate to and a method to navigate to those anchors, on the same page or another.
  • 2
    I thought it's How to Remove the Event? Fuck!
  • 1
    I always read it ( Achref ) thinking that ref stands for refer which is more logic in my my mind.

    I know you come with your rant to tell my my to change this, and replace what I was thinking is ( REFER ) is actually ( REFERENCE )

    It's just like trying to give a CONST a new value
  • 1
    Your realisation is correct.
  • 1
    Cheers
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