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CSCI E-12 Fundamentals of Web Site Development | Spring 2020

## Common HTML5 Elements - a element - anchor

The anchor — `a` — element is at the center of the key "hypertext" feature of the web. The `a` element is how to create hyperlinks from resource to another!
HTML 5 Specification: the `a` element.

To go along with the `a` element is the `href` attribute. The value of the `href` attribute is the URL that the browser will load when the link is activated (e.g. a mouse click).

The following paragraph was taken from "'Sunshine vitamin' looks a little brighter", HarvardScience, February 5, 2013:

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    <p>Adequate levels of
    <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vitamin-d/NS_patient-vitamind">vitamin D</a>
    during young adulthood may reduce the risk of adult-onset
    <a href="http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/type-1/">type 1 diabetes</a>
    by as much as 50 percent, according to researchers at the
    <a href="http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/">Harvard School of Public Health</a>
    (HSPH). If confirmed in future studies, the findings could lead to a role for vitamin D
    supplementation in preventing this serious autoimmune disease in adults.</p>

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Adequate levels of vitamin D during young adulthood may reduce the risk of adult-onset type 1 diabetes by as much as 50 percent, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). If confirmed in future studies, the findings could lead to a role for vitamin D supplementation in preventing this serious autoimmune disease in adults.

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