The **`<a>` element** in HTML is the **anchor** element. We use this to integrate URLs (hyperlinks, email addresses, files, etc.) into the webpage via the `href` attribute, which is enclosed within the opening `<a>` and closing `</a>` tags.

# Conventions
There are some conventions as to how these links appear. All links are underlined by default (this can be modified by using the CSS property `text-decoration`). Conventions for colors include:
- unvisited links are blue
- visited links are purple
- active links are red 
>If the tag has no `href` attribute specified, it can be kept as a placeholder to add a link later on. 

# Attributes supported
The `<a>` tag has many attributes in addition to global attributes, including:

#### href
 
 

#### download
 
 

#### rel 
 
 

#### target

Sets the URL to which the link will take the user

Clicking on the `href` link will download the target file specified by `download` tag

Sets the relationship between the current page and the page to which `href` links 

Specifies where the page or document should be opened (e.g., in a new tab or on the same one)


# Code 
The following tag shows how we use the `<a>` tag for hyperlinks:

<html>
 <head>
 
 <meta charset="UTF-8">
 <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
 <title> 'a' Element Code Example</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 
  
  
 <a href="https://educative.io/" target="_blank">Go to Educative homepage.</a>
 </body>
</html>



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  setTimeout(function() {
    pTag = document.querySelector("div");
    pTag.innerHTML = '';
    newVal = document.createElement("p");
    newVal.innerHTML = 'Hello World';
    pTag.appendChild(newVal);
    resolve();
  }, 100)
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What is <a> element in HTML?

The HTML <a> element integrates URLs into webpages using the href attribute and supports various attributes like download, rel, and target.