Chapter 11. Creating Links
The HTML 4.01 specification puts it simply and clearly: “A link is a connection from one web resource to another.” This ability to link one document to another is what makes HTML unique among document markup languages and is the key to its widespread popularity.
This chapter focuses on the HTML tags related to linking and building relationships between documents. It includes uses for the anchor tag, linking with imagemaps (both client- and server-side), affecting the appearance of hyperlinks, creating links with non-web protocols, and associating documents with the link tag.
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. Tag usage is indicated below the tag name. Start and end tags are required unless otherwise noted. “Deprecated” means that the tag or attribute is currently supported but is due to be phased out of the HTML specification and is discouraged from use (usually in favor of similar style sheet controls). The attributes listed for each tag reflect those in common use. A more thorough listing of attributes for each tag, according to the HTML 4.01 specification, appears in Appendix A .
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