A
Description
The A element brackets (or anchors) a piece of text (and/or image) which
is identified as a hypertext link.
The A element must have either an HREF attribute or a NAME attribute.
The HREF attribute identifies a destination ,
and the bracketed text is rendered as a hypertext link to the URL.
Browsers will display the contents of an A element with an HREF attribute
in a special manner to indicate that if the contents are selected,
the browser will execute that hypertext link.
The NAME attribute identifies a destination tag, and the bracketed text
is thereby identified as an available hypertext target
within this document.
Browsers do not display the contents of an A element with a NAME attribute
in any special way.
However, an A element with an HREF attribute can now be constructed
by using the document URL suffixed with #name.
This will load the document, but will position the display
starting at the location of this NAME tag.
An A element with an HREF attribute can also be constructed
to jump directly to this destination tag within the same document
by a URL consisting solely of #name
The presence of REL=relation
in document A with HREF to document/object B
identifies a relationship that B has to A that A recognizes/authorizes/verifies.
The presence of REV=relation
of the identical relation
in document B with HREF to document/object A
identifies a desired/expected/claimed relationship that B has to A,
but must be verified by checking with A.
Minimum Attributes
<A HREF="..." >characters...
</A>
or
<A NAME="..." >characters...
</A>
All Possible Attributes
<A HREF="..."
NAME="..."
REL="..."
REV="..."
URN="..."
TITLE="..."
METHODS="..."
LANG="..."
DIR=ltr|rtl
CHARSET="..."
ID="..."
CLASS="..."
MD="..."
TARGET="..."
SHAPE="...">characters...