# can't bind to 'routerlink' since it isn't a known property of 'a'

This error is quite common in Angular.

To perform navigation with Angular, we use the routerLink directive on a HTML element usually the <a> tag.

Let’s consider a NavigationBarComponent with a template like this.

<a [routerLink]="['/home']">
Home
</a>

Indeed the routerLink directive has to be imported in our component’s module otherwise we get this error: can’t bind to ‘routerlink’ since it isn’t a known property of ‘a’

In other words the module that is declaring our component must import the RouterModule.

import {RouterModule} from '@angular/router';

@NgModule({
 declarations: [NavigationBarComponent]
  imports: [RouterModule]
  })
export class NavigationBarModule {}