Name
<a>
Synopsis
<a>
...
</a>
Description
Create a hyperlink (href
attribute) or fragment
identifier (name
attribute) within a document.
Attributes
-
accesskey
=char Define the hot-key character for this anchor.
-
charset
=encoding Specify the character set used to encode the target.
-
coords
=list Specify a list of shape-dependent coordinates.
-
href
=url Specify the URL of a hyperlink target (required if not a name anchor).
-
hreflang
=language Specify the language encoding for the target.
-
name
=string Specify the name of a fragment identifier (required if not a hypertext reference anchor).
-
rel
=relationship Indicate the relationship from this document to the target.
-
rev
=relationship Indicate the reverse relationship of the target to this document.
-
shape
=shape Define the region’s shape to be
circ
,circle
,poly
,polygon
,rect
, orrectangle
.-
tabindex
=value Define the position of this anchor in the document’s tabbing order.
-
target
=name Define the name of the frame or window to receive the referenced document.
-
type
=type Specify the MIME type of the target.
Example
To create an anchor named info
at some point in a document called doc.html,
use the <a>
tag with the name
attribute:
<a name="info" >Information</a>
To provide a hyperlink to that point in doc.html, use the <a>
tag with the href
attribute appending the anchor name to the filename
using a hash mark (#
):
<a href="doc.html#info" >Link to information</a>
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