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Web Design in a Nutshell, eMatter EditionChapter 8Creating LinksCHAPTER 8
Creating Links
This chapter focuses on the HTML tags related to linking one document to
another, including uses for the anchor tag, linking with imagemaps (both client-
and server-side), affecting the appearance of hyperlinks, and creating links with
non-Web protocols.
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. Browsers that deprecate the
tag are noted with a superscript D. Tag usage is indicated below the tag name. A
more thorough listing of attributes for each tag, according to the HTML 4.0 Specifi-
cation, appears in Appendix A,HTML Tags and Elements.
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Defines ananchorwithin the document. An anchor is used to link to another
document. It can also serve to label a fragment within a document (also called a
named anchor), which is used as a reference for linking to a specific point in an
HTML document.
Attributes
href=url
Specifies the URL of the target destination.
method=value
Specifies a list of names, each representing a particular document-processing
method, usually an application name. It is browser-dependent and is rarely
used in practice.