Jul 25th
2008
Posted @ 4:45 pm
The Anchor Tag
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a - The Anchor tag, which is most commonly associated with hyperlinks.
- charset - This attribute specifies the character encoding of the target URL.
Values:- See the IANA Character Sets for these values.
- coords - This attribute specifies the coordinates that define a linked region in an image map.
Values:- If the image map is a circle - Enter three coordinates: center-x-axis,center-y-axis,radius
- If the image map is a polygon - Enter the X/Y coordinates of each corner: x1,y1,x2,y2,x3,y3,x4,y4…
- If the image map is a rectangle - Enter the X/Y coordinates of each of the four corners: left(x1),top(y1),right(x2),bottom(y2)
- href - This attribute specifies the target URL.
Values:- Absolute URLs - Example: webmastersedge.net - Navigates to a new site.
- Anchor URLs - Example: index.html - Navigates to another page.
- Relative URLs - Example: #top - Navigates to an anchor within the page.
- hreflang - This attribute specifies the target URL’s written language with a two letter language code.
Values:- See the IANA Language Subtag Registry Search for these values.
- name - This attribute names an anchor. While this is widely being replaced with the id attribute, it can be used to set an anchor point which can specify a spot on the page to be “jumped to” by using another hyperlink.
Values:- Can have any value that starts with a letter and only contains: a-z , A-Z , 0-9 , colons , hyphens , periods , underscores
- rel - This attribute specifies the relationship between the current document and the target URL.
Values:- alternate - Suggests that the target URL is an alternate version or mirror of the current page.
- appendix - Suggests that the target URL is an appendix.
- bookmark - Suggests that the target URL is a related page.
- chapter - Suggests that the target URL is a chapter of a series of pages.
- contents - Suggests that the target URL is a table of contents for the current page.
- copyright - Suggests that the target URL is a page containing copyright information.
- glossary - Suggests that the target URL is a glossary of terms used in the current page.
- help - Suggests that the target URL is a help document.
- index - Suggests that the target URL is an index of the current page.
- next - Suggests that the target URL is the next page in the current series.
- prev - Suggests that the target URL is the previous page in the current series.
- section - Suggests that the target URL is a section of a series of pages.
- start - Suggests that the target URL is the first page in a series.
- stylesheet - Suggests that the target URL is an external stylesheet for the current page.
- subsection - Suggests that the target URL is a subsection of the current series.
- rev - This attribute specifies the relationship between the current document and the target URL.
Values:- alternate - Suggests that the target URL is an alternate version or mirror of the current page.
- appendix - Suggests that the target URL is an appendix.
- bookmark - Suggests that the target URL is a related page.
- chapter - Suggests that the target URL is a chapter of a series of pages.
- contents - Suggests that the target URL is a table of contents for the current page.
- copyright - Suggests that the target URL is a page containing copyright information.
- glossary - Suggests that the target URL is a glossary of terms used in the current page.
- help - Suggests that the target URL is a help document.
- index - Suggests that the target URL is an index of the current page.
- next - Suggests that the target URL is the next page in the current series.
- prev - Suggests that the target URL is the previous page in the current series.
- section - Suggests that the target URL is a section of a series of pages.
- start - Suggests that the target URL is the first page in a series.
- stylesheet - Suggests that the target URL is an external stylesheet for the current page.
- subsection - Suggests that the target URL is a subsection of the current series.
- shape - This attribute defines the shape of an image map.
Values:- circ - Defines a circular region of an image map.
- circle - Defines a circular region of an image map.
- default - Defines the entire area an image map.
- poly - Defines a polygonal region of an image map.
- polygon - Defines a polygonal region of an image map.
- rect - Defines a rectangular region of an image map.
- rectangle - Defines a rectangular region of an image map.
- target - This attribute specifies where to open the target URL.
Values:- _blank - Sets the target URL to open in a new window.
- _parent - Sets the target URL to open in the parent frameset.
- _self - Sets the target URL to open in the same frame as the link.
- _top - Sets the target URL to open in current window.
- wildcard - You can enter the name of a frame in order for the URL to open in that specified frame.
- type - This attribute specifies the MIME type of the target URL.
Values:- See the IANA Registered MIME Types for these values.
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