VerySimple

I’m adding this post strictly for the reason that every time I need to do this I spend about 20 minutes searching for an example, only to find various broken posts and incorrect answers. This way works for me every time. If you have an alternate way that works better or is less code, please feel free to post a comment.

var a = document.createElement('a');
a.setAttribute('href', 'page.html');
a.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Click Me'));

The interesting thing to note is that the text inside the link is not actually an attribute, rather it’s a a separate child node within the A element.