# Hint
Hints allow you to provide additional context to any element in an activity.
In most cases, this will be basic text:
However, you may want to link to a web page or a shared file in your business ecosystem in this note as well.
For example, you may want to link to a government definition to aid newer employees on industrial terminology. You can do this using a HTML link:
Here, the hint starts with plain text *Refer to Introduction:*
Next we add
```
Introduction
```
To break this down, we open with *\ **\Introduction\\\
Then we add *href=""*, inserting the URL of the webpage, or file, we wish to link to between the quotation marks.
> \Introduction\
To make sure this opens in a new window, this is followed by *target="blank"*, which is the instruction to open the link in a new.
> *\* *Introduction\*
We then close this off with >
> *\*** *Introduction\*
Next, we add the text that will display. In this case the word *Introduction*
> *\* ***Introduction**\*
Then finally close out the link with *\*
> *\* *Introduction\*\*\\*\**
From the operator's perspective, this is what we see the following text in the hint:
