Chapter 8. Creating Links

This chapter focuses on the HTML tags related to linking one document to another, including uses for the anchor tag, linking with imagemaps (both client- and server-side), affecting the appearance of hyperlinks, and creating links with non-Web protocols.

Summary of Tags Related to Linking

In this section, browser support for each tag is noted to the right of the tag name. Browsers that do not support the tag are grayed out. Browsers that deprecate the tag are noted with a superscript D. Tag usage is indicated below the tag name. A more thorough listing of attributes for each tag, according to the HTML 4.0 Specification, appears in Appendix A.

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