a tag
frame tag
frameset tag
TAG: link
<link>
Available in versions: 2.0, 3.2, 4.0
Browser compatibility: Explorer 4, 5 Netscape 4, 6
The
<link>
tag is used to establish a relationship between the current document and one or more other related documents. For example, if you have a Cascading Style Sheets .css file that defines the style for an entire web site, then each file in the site would be linked to the .css file using the
link
tag.
This tag can be used more than once (i.e., one link per tag). Each occurrence of this tag must be placed inside the
head
element. A value for the
href
attribute is required.
There is no closing tag.
Core Attributes
class
dir
id
lang
onclick
ondblclick
onkeydown
onkeypress
onkeyup
onmousedown
onmousemove
onmouseout
onmouseover
onmouseup
style
title
Attributes
charset
The
charset
attribute is used to specify the character encoding used on the page that is the target of the link. Character encoding defines how a sequence of bytes is to be converted into characters for display.
href
The
href
attribute is a valid URL address for another document. This attribute is required.
hreflang
The
hreflang
attribute can only be used when the href attribute is also being used. It specifies the language of the page that is the target of the link.
media
The
media
attribute specifies which medium the link apply to. Permitted values include:
all, aural, braille, handheld, print, projection, screen, tty,
and
tv
.
rel
The
rel
attribute is currently not fully supported by most browsers. It is a space-separated list of one or more values that specify the relationship from the source page to the target for a link. Some of the proposed values are,
appendix, bookmark, chapter, contents, copyright, glossary, help, index, next, prev, section, stylesheets,
and
subsection
.
rev
The
rev
attribute is currently not fully supported by most browsers. It is a space-separated list of one or more values that specify the relationship from the target page to the source for a link. Perhaps the most useful value is
relation
.
target
The
target
attribute specifies the name of the frame or window in which the target page should appear when a link is clicked. The four reserved names are
_blank, _parent, _self,
and
_top
.
type
The
type
attribute specifies the MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) type of the linked document. Two permitted type values include:
text/css
and
text/javascript
.
This example demonstrates the code for creating two different types of links.
Code:
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="include/StylesDefinitions.css">
<link rev="relation" href="http://www.fly-by-day-computing.com">
<title> Fly-By-Night-Computing </title>
</head>
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