Name
HREF — NN all IE all HTML 3.2
Synopsis
HREF=”URI"
Required
The URI of the destination of a link associated with the area. In a
browser, when the URI is an HTML document, the document is loaded
into the current (default) or other window target (as defined by the
TARGET
attribute). For some other file types, the
browser may load the destination content into a plugin or save the
destination file on the client machine. Because Navigator (through
Version 4) treats AREA
elements as
A
elements, the HREF
attribute
must be defined in the AREA
element for Navigator
scripts to access various properties about the URL and for event
handlers (such as onMouseOver
) to work.
Example
<AREA COORDS="20,30,120,70" HREF="contents.html" TARGET="display">
Value
Any valid URI, including complete and relative URLs, anchors on the
same page (anchor names prefaced with the #
symbol), and the javascript:
pseudo-URL in
scriptable browsers to trigger a script statement rather than
navigate to a destination.
Default
None.
Object Model Reference
- IE
[window.]document.links[i].href
[window.]document.all.elementID.href
- NN
[window.]document.links[i].href
In both browsers, other link object properties allow for the
extraction of components of the URL, such as protocol and hostname.
See the Link
object in Chapter 9.
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