Hi, sorry if this seems simple - I've started learning HTML and CSS and the w3schools tutorial wasn't clear about this.

Is it required to have a "title" attribute after all links?

For example:

<a href="/" title="Home">HOME</a>

Would there be any problems if I removed the title attribute? Or changed it to

title=""?

What are the advantages of having a title?

Also, when linking to pages in my website.... does it matter if my code links to www.example.com or is it okay to have href="/" as in the example above? Should I use <a href="www.example.com/about.html"> or <a href="/about.html">? Should I add a slash to the end of links (a href="/about.html/")?

Many thanks.

You should be able to leave that out. I think it is a css thing. My pages dont use it and pass w3c xhtml validation

this should work just fine
<a href="www.example.com/about.html">

Maybe some of the true gruros can tell you why it looks that way at the w3schools

But I know it will work fine the way you have it.

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Then you know the code should work fine.

I think it is a css thing

And.. you would be wrong. I would leave it IN. It's an ACCESSIBILITY "thing", allowing you to put in more of a description of what you're linking to for those visitors who may be using assistive technology.

Originally Posted by LadynRed

And.. you would be wrong. I would leave it IN. It's an ACCESSIBILITY "thing", allowing you to put in more of a description of what you're linking to for those visitors who may be using assistive technology.

Thank you I learned something as I said I was not sure of the reason I just knew it would work without it.

so it is kind of like the alt for images right? If thats the case I am grateful for your post I will start using it in my stuff.

Yes, it is like the alt attribute for images. In addition, the text you put into an alt attribute does not show up in Firefox when you hover over an image, but anything in the title attribute WILL.