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title: Links
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## Links

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Links are used everywhere on the web, with the purpose if directing users to various content items. They're usually indicated by your cursor turning into a hand icon. Links can be text, images or other elements contained within your HTML or webpage. 

You use an ```code <a>``` tag or anchor element to define your link, which also also needs a destination address that you'll access with the ```code href``` attribute. Here's a snippet that makes the phrase 'the freeCodeCamp Guide' a link:

```html
<a href="https://guide.freecodecamp.org">the freeCodeCamp Guide</a>
```

If you'd like your link to open in a new tab, you'll use the ```code target``` attribute along with the ```code "_blank"``` value inside your opening ```code <a>``` tag. That looks like this:

```html
<a href="https://guide.freecodecamp.org" target="_blank">the freeCodeCamp Guide</a>
```

When you need to guide users to a specific part of your webpage, let's assume the very bottom, you first need to assign the hash ```code #``` symbol to the ```code href``` attribute, like this

```html
<a href="#footer>More about us<a/>
```

you'll then need to use an ```code id``` attribute in the element you want to direct your user to - in this case the ```code <footer>``` at the bottom of the webpage. 

```html
<footer id="footer">Powered by freeCodeCamp</footer>
```

#### More Information:
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