HTML Anchors / Links
Description
The anchor tag is used to create what is commonly known as a link. An Anchor tag can create a link to another page or to position in the html page.
Examples
For example:
A link to Yahoo
The code:
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com">A link to Yahoo</a>
If you want a new browser window to appear when the user clicks on the link then you can use the same as above but with the addition of the
target attribute:
For example:
A link to Yahoo
The code:
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.yahoo.com">A link to Yahoo</a>
Attributes for <a>
| href |
url
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Specifies the url of the destination |
| title |
text
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the title of the target document |
| target |
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_blank
_self
_parent
_top |
the window or frame the linked to document should be displayed.
_blank opens a new browser window |
| accesskey |
a single character e.g. a |
Specifies an shorcut key used to access the link from the keyboard. |
| tabindex |
number |
Specifies the tab index. When a user presses the tab key the focus is moved to each element in the tabindex order. This is useful when there are many links as the user can tab through each link |
| name |
text
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Used to create a named anchor. Specifies the name of a part of the document (a fragment). You can link to fragments using the href attribute by pre-pending # to the name |
| rel |
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Creates a relationship between the current page and the target page. |
| rev |
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The relationship from the target page back to the source page. |