Text and/or an image area on a Web page that a user can click on to "connect to" or reference another document (also known as "hypertext hyperlink"). There are many possiblities of what that document could be. Usually, links are thought of as a connection between two Web pages or Web sites. They can also be used to reference a different part of the same Web page, linking to some text elsewhere on a page, or to a cause a file to download to your computer or trigger the launching of an external or helper application which will then do something with the clicked on file.

What actually occurs when you click on a link is determined by the file's MIME type which is configured (set up) on your computer system to make certain things happen when a MIME type file is encountered. A basic example is your Web browser, which is preconfigured to display Web page files whenever it encounteres a file whose MIME extension is HTML or HTM. Links are also called hyperlinks, hypertext and hot links, and they are coded in HTML by Web page authors.

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