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Introduction to links and anchors
This section introduces the link (or hyperlink, or Web link), the basic hypertext construct. A link is a connection from one Web resource to another.
A link has two ends (also called anchors) and a direction. The link starts at the "source" anchor and points to the "destination" anchor, which may be any Web resource (e.g., an image, a video clip, a sound bite, a program, an HTML document, an element within an HTML document, etc.).
12.1.1 Visiting a linked resource
The default behavior associated with a link is the retrieval of another Web resource.
This behavior is commonly and implicitly obtained by selecting the link (e.g., by clicking, through keyboard input, etc.).