Anchor tag not working properly in asp.net

Question

in aspx

 <a id="anchorViewMore" runat="server" > View More</a>

in backend c#

 anchorViewMore.HRef = "www.google.com";

output im getting http://localhost:3180/seoapp%20april%2017%20keyword%20assign%20by%20TL%20-%20backup/www.google.com

i want that href should be only "google.com" and should redirect to that website

Answer 1

Try:

anchorViewMore.HRef = "http://www.google.com";

If you don't put the 'http://' then it will link relative to the page you are on.

To make it open in a new window, you need to change the HTML to:

<a id="anchorViewMore" runat="server" target="_blank"> View More</a>