Problem

Did you know that the anchor element can do more than just navigate to a url?

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We’ve got three specific use cases. Can you guess them?

Solution
<!-- sends a POST request with the body of PING to url -->
<a href="#" ping="https://api.iwanttotrackyou.com">
  Click Me
</a>
<a href="data:,Hello%2C%20World%21" download="helloworld.txt">
  Download
</a>
<a href="mailto:tyler@ui.dev?subject=Re%3A%20My%20third%20nipple&body=%F0%9F%91%8B">
  Hi 👋
</a>

And that’s all folks. Thanks for reading ❤️.