<a href> tag

[prasannakarthikl]

Why the href tag is not working, if http is not used? Is it mandatory,if so why?

 

[mt2002]

Its mandatory, The reason is because there are different types of protocols that can be used (http, ftp, et al...) so you need to specify the type of protocol.

 

[JimmySeal]

The protocol need not be specified in relative links (links to locations on the same server).
So if a page located at
http://www.mywebpage.com/files/hello.html
had a tag
<a href="morefiles/yay.html">

this would be essentially the same thing as
<a href="http://www.mywebpage.com/files/morefiles/yay.html">