A anchor for hypertext link XHTML 1.01 Strict

Purpose

anchor for hypertext link

Description

The anchor, 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
accesskey	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a single character as per XML specification which defines a character as an atomic unit of text as specified by ISO/IEC 10646 [ISO/IEC 10646] (see also [ISO/IEC 10646-2000]); accessibility key character
charset	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a character encoding as per RFC2045; char encoding of linked resource
class	CDATA	#IMPLIED	space-separated list of classes
coords	CDATA	#IMPLIED	comma-separated list of lengths; for use with client-side image maps
dir	( ltr \| rtl )	#IMPLIED	direction for weak/neutral text
href	CDATA	#IMPLIED	Uniform Resource Identifier as per RFC2396; a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a URI; URI for linked resource
hreflang	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code as RFC3066
id	ID	#IMPLIED	document-wide unique id
lang	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code (backwards compatible); language code as RFC3066
name	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	named link end
onblur	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; the element lost the focus
onclick	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was clicked; script expression
ondblclick	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was double clicked; script expression
onfocus	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; the element got the focus
onkeydown	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a key was pressed down; script expression
onkeypress	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a key was pressed and released; script expression
onkeyup	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a key was released; script expression
onmousedown	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was pressed down; script expression
onmousemove	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer was moved within; script expression
onmouseout	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer was moved away; script expression
onmouseover	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer was moved onto; script expression
onmouseup	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was released; script expression
rel	CDATA	#IMPLIED	space-separated list of link types; forward link types
rev	CDATA	#IMPLIED	space-separated list of link types; reverse link types
shape	( rect \| circle \| poly \| default )	"rect"	shape; for use with client-side image maps
style	CDATA	#IMPLIED	associated style info; style sheet data
tabindex	CDATA	#IMPLIED	one or more digits; position in tabbing order
title	CDATA	#IMPLIED	advisory title; text used for titles
type	CDATA	#IMPLIED	media type as per RFC2045; advisory content type
xml:lang	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code (as per XML 1.0 spec); language code as RFC3066

Content

( #PCDATA | br | span | bdo | map | object | img | tt | i | b | big | small | em | strong | dfn | code | q | samp | kbd | var | cite | abbr | acronym | sub | sup | input | select | textarea | label | button | ins | del | script )*

End tag

Required </a>

Referenced in

abbr acronym address b bdo big caption cite code dd del dfn div dt em fieldset h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 i ins kbd label legend li object p pre q samp small span strong sub sup td th 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" /></a>
Naming an anchor: <a href="http://www.w3.org/" name="reference-to-w3c"
id="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.