Links

Hyperlinking is fundamental to HTML. These elements enable you to link to other documents.

<a>...</a>

Usage	Used to define links and anchors.
Start/End Tag	Required/Required.
Attributes	%coreattrs, %i18n, %events.
	charset="..."Character encoding of the resource.
	name="..."Defines an anchor.
	href="..."The URL of the linked resource.
	target="..."Determines where the resource will be displayed (user-defined name, _blank [in a new unnamed window], _parent [in the immediate parent frameset], _self [in the same frame as the current document], or _top [in a full browser window that removes the frameset completely]).
	rel="..."Forward link types.
	rev="..."Reverse link types.
	accesskey="..."Assigns a hotkey to this element.
	shape="..."Enables you to define client-side imagemaps using defined shapes (default, rect, circle, poly).
	coords="..."Sets the size of the shape using pixel or percentage lengths.
	tabindex="..."Sets the tabbing order between elements with a defined tabindex.
Empty	No.

<base>

Usage	All other URLs in the document are resolved against this location.
Start/End Tag	Required/IllegalSee note for XHTML 1.0 requirements.
Attributes	href="..."The URL of the linked resource.
	target="..."Determines where the resource will be displayed (user-defined name, _blank, _parent, _self, _top).
Empty	Yes.
Notes	Located in the document head. In XHTML 1.0, this tag should take the XML form of <base /> to ensure compatibility with older browsers.

<link>

Usage	Defines the relationship between a link and a resource.
Start/End Tag	Required/IllegalSee note for XHTML 1.0 requirements.
Attributes	%coreattrs, %i18n, %events.
	HRef="..."The URL of the resource.
	rel="..."The forward link types.
	rev="..."The reverse link types.
	type="..."The Internet content type.
	media="..."Defines the destination medium (screen, print, projection, braille, speech, all).
	target="..."Determines where the resource will be displayed (user-defined name, _blank, _parent, _self, _top).
Empty	Yes.
Notes	Located in the document head. In XHTML 1.0, this tag should take the XML form of <link /> to ensure compatibility with older browsers. Most often used to load external style sheets.