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HTML edit Tim Berners-Lee saw the possibility of using hyperlinks to link any information to any other information over the Internet. Hyperlinks were therefore integral to the creation of the World Wide Web. Web pages are written in the hypertext mark-up language HTML. This is what a hyperlink to the home page of the W3C organization could look like in HTML code: This HTML code consists of several tags: The hyperlink starts with an anchor opening tag <a , and includes a hyperlink reference href="https://www.w3.org/" to the URL for the page. (Note that the URL is enclosed in quotes.) The URL is followed by > , marking the end of the anchor opening tag. The words that follow identify what is being linked; this is the only part of the code that is ordinarily visible on the screen when the page is rendered, but when the cursor hovers over the link, many browsers display the target URL somewhere on the screen, such as in the lower left-hand corner. Typically these words...
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How hyperlinks work in HTML

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