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4. Getting Connected: A Trip to Webville > How do we link to other Web sites?

How do we link to other Web sites?

URLs aren’t just for typing into browsers; you can use them right in your HTML. And, of course, right on cue, the Starbuzz CEO has a new task for you: make a link from the main Starbuzz page over to the caffeine information at http://buzz.headfirstlabs.com. As you can probably guess, we’re going to throw that URL right into an <a> element. Here’s how:

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That’s all there is to it. To link to any resource on the Web, all you need is its Uniform Resource Locator, which goes in the <a> element as the value of the href attribute. Let’s go ahead and add this in the Starbuzz “index.html” page.