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title: "How to add an <a href> link to a <div> control in HTML?"  
description: "How to add an <a href> link to a <div> control in HTML?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2013-10-05  
updated: 2013-10-05  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1627/how-to-add-an-lt-a-href-gt-link-to-a-lt-div-gt-control-in-html  
category: "html5"  
tags: ["html5"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to add an <a href> link to a <div> control in HTML?

I need to know how to [add](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/12983/add-address-in-textbox-when-page-is-load-and-if-i-search-address-in-textbox-show-in-map-by-javascript) an a [href link](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/305892/what-is-an-href-link-5-best-practices-you-must-know) to a div?

**Here is my [code](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/85458/alan-turing-the-mastermind-behind-cracking-the-enigma-code-during-world-war-ii) :-**

```
<div id="buttonOne">
            <div id="linkedinB">
                <img src="img/linkedinB.png" width="40" height="40">
            </div>
      </div>
```

## Replies

### Reply by Anonymous User

Can't you surround it with an a tag?

```
  <a href="#"><div id="btnOne">
        <div id="linkedinB">
            <img src="img/xyz.png" width="35" height="35">
        </div>
  </div></a>
```


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