The SRC
and HREF
attributes are used to include some external entities like an image, a CSS file, a HTML file, any other web page or a JavaScript file.
Is there a clear differentiation between SRC
and HREF
? Where or when to use SRC
or HREF
? I think they can’t be used interchangeably.
I’m giving below few examples where these attributes are used:
- To refer a CSS file:
href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3395359/cssfile.css"
inside the link tag. - To refer a JS file:
src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3395359/myscript.js"
inside the script tag. - To refer an image file:
src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3395359/mypic.jpg"
inside an image tag. - To refer another webpage:
href="http://www.webpage.com"
inside an anchor tag.