href

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

href

   <World-Wide Web> ({hypertext} reference) The attribute of an
   {HTML} "a" (anchor or link) tag, whose value gives the {URL}
   of the {web page} or other resource that the link points to.
   For example,

    <a href="http://foldoc.org/">FOLDOC href definition</a>

   would display an anchor pointing to this dictionary.

   (2008-02-22)