A anchor for hypertext link HTML 2.0

Purpose

anchor for hypertext link

Description

A is the element used to create hypertext links. It is one of the most popularly-used elements. You can create a hypertext link from one document to another by using the href attribute. Note that A cannot contain another A.

Start tag

Required <A>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
HREF	CDATA	#IMPLIED	address of link destination
METHODS	NAMES	#IMPLIED	operations on destination (advisory)
NAME	CDATA	#IMPLIED	name of this anchor
REL	NAMES	#IMPLIED	relationship to destination
REV	NAMES	#IMPLIED	relationship of destination to this
SDAPREF	CDATA	#FIXED "<Anchor: #AttList>"	generated text prefix; in support of transformation to the International Committee for Accessible Document Design DTD for usable access to structured information by print-impaired individuals
TITLE	CDATA	#IMPLIED	title of destination (advisory)
URN	CDATA	#IMPLIED	universal resource name permanent address of destination; a URL is a URN

Content

( #PCDATA | A | IMG | BR | EM | STRONG | CODE | SAMP | KBD | VAR | CITE | TT | B | I #PCDATA | A | IMG | BR )* -( A )

End tag

Required </A>

Referenced in

A ADDRESS B CITE CODE DD DT EM H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6 I KBD LI P PRE SAMP STRONG TT VAR

Example

Source

Appearance

Link to another document:
<A Href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</A>

Title attribute set:
<A Href="http://www.w3.org/" Title="The World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</A>

An image in the "hotspot":
<A Href="http://www.december.com/html/"><IMG Src = "http://www.december.com/html/images/icon.gif" Alt="The HTML Station" Align="center"></A>

Naming an anchor:
<A Href="http://www.w3.org/" Name="reference-to-w3c">W3C</A>

Link to named anchor in this document:
Learn about it <A Href="#reference-to-w3c">at the W3C</A>

Link to a named anchor in another document:
You can learn about <A Href = "http://www.december.com/john/faq.html#lastname"> my last name on my FAQ</A>.

Link to another document: W3C

Title attribute set: W3C

An image in the "hotspot":

Naming an anchor: W3C

Link to named anchor in this document: Learn about it at the W3C

Link to a named anchor in another document: You can learn about my last name on my FAQ.