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title: Hyperlink
slug: Glossary/Hyperlink
page-type: glossary-definition
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Hyperlinks connect webpages or data items to one another. In HTML, {{HTMLElement("a")}} elements define hyperlinks from a spot on a webpage (like a text string or image) to another spot on some other webpage (or even on the same page).

## See also

- [Hyperlink](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink) on Wikipedia
- The [Hyperlink](/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduction_to_HTML/Creating_hyperlinks) guide on MDN
- [Links in HTML Documents - W3C](https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/links.html)
- [HTML a - hyperlink - W3C](https://w3c.github.io/html-reference/a.html)
- [`<a>` on MDN](/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a)
- [`<link>` on MDN](/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/link)