We can use ref to get the absolute permalink to a page for the href attribute of <a>.
Version
Hugo 0.91
ref
Absolute permalink of the about page.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<script src="alpine.js" defer></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="output.css" />
</head>
<body>
<a href='{{ ref . "about" }}'>About</a>
</body>
</html>
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<a href='{{ ref . "about" }}'>About</a>
ref: get the absolute permalink to a page*: the context of the page from which to resolve relative paths, typically the current page (.)about: the folder or file to get the absolute permalink
Conclusion
- We have to use a double quote with String for Go template language, and the single quote is not allowed. So we have to use a single quote for the HTML attribute