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Javascript can access elements of a webpage by referring to their ID values.  The following line of HTML is for a link that has an id of "url" and points to "http://www.yahoo.com":

<a id="url" href="http://www.yahoo.com">testing</a>

The following Javascript code will find the Element with an id value of ''url'', and will then set the href attribute of it to "http://www.msdn.com"

  // This line fetches and handle to the Element with id ''url'' and returns it to the variable ''link''

  link=document.getElementById('url');

  // This line sets the href attribute of the link item to "http://www.msdn.com"

  link.href="http://www.msdn.com";

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