<p>
    <a href="#">This is an ordinary HTML link</a>
</p>

<svg width="250px" viewBox="0 0 250 20" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
    <a href="#">
        <text x="0" y="15">
            This is a link created in SVG
        </text>
    </a>
</svg>

@namespace svg url('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg');

a {
    color: orangered;
    text-decoration: underline dashed;
    font-weight: bold;
}

svg|a {
    fill: blueviolet;
    text-decoration: underline solid;
    text-transform: uppercase;
}