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!

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", Harvard Gazette, 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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