HTML tag reference guide

Description:

The <LINK> tag is designed to define a relationship between documents. It may only appear in the <HEAD> section. You may have as many as you desire. Its job is to give information which various user agents (browsers and robots) may use. For example, one <LINK> attribute defines an icon to be used in favorites, and this is used by Internet Explorer and Mozilla.

Attributes:

charset = characterset

Specifies the character encoding of the resource indicated by HREF.

dir=direction

Indicates the language of the text in the <LINK>.

href = url

The location of the resource.

hreflang = "lang"

The language of the linked page.

id = "name"

You can give an LINK a name, which allows it to be referenced and changed in a script (dynamic HTML).

lang="lang"

Indicates the language of the text within the <LINK>.

Media

Indicates an alternate media associated with the document.

rel = "type"

Link forward of the current page. The value "type" can be one of the following:

Indicates how to measure the units.

Alternate	Substitute versions for the document. When used with "lang" attribute, specifies alternate translations. With "media" it impilies a different media.
Appendix	Defines the document serving as the appendix.
Chapter	Defines the document serving as the chapter.
Contents	Specifies the table of contents. May also be TOC.
Copyright	A document containing the copyright statement.
Glossary	Indicates the glossary for the document.
Help	A document offering more help.
Index	Name of a file containing the index.
Next	Refers to the next document.
Prev	Refers to the previous document.
Section	Defines the document serving as the section.
Start	Indicates the first document in a collection.
Stylesheet	Specifies an external style sheet.
Subsection	Defines the document serving as the subsection.

rev = "type"

Link behind of the current page. This would be corresponding to "prev".

target = "targetwindow"

This attribute loads the document indicated by HREF into the window as indicated by "targetwindow".

Examples:

<HEAD>
  <TITLE>Chapter 2</TITLE>
  <LINK rel="Index" href="http://www.internet-tips.net/index.asp">
  <LINK rel="Next"  href="Chapter3.html">
  <LINK rel="Prev"  href="Chapter1.html">
</HEAD>

Defines the "index", "next" and "prev" documents. (Example borrowed from W3C HTML 4.01 specification)

<LINK title="The manual in Dutch"
      type="text/html"
      rel="alternate"
      hreflang="nl" 
      href="http://someplace.com/manual/dutch.html">
<LINK title="The manual in Portuguese"
      type="text/html"
      rel="alternate"
      hreflang="pt" 
      href="http://someplace.com/manual/portuguese.html">
<LINK title="The manual in Arabic"
      type="text/html"
      rel="alternate"
      charset="ISO-8859-6"
      hreflang="ar" 
      href="http://someplace.com/manual/arabic.html">
<LINK lang="fr" title="La documentation en Fran&ccedil;ais"
      type="text/html"
      rel="alternate"
      hreflang="fr"
      href="http://someplace.com/manual/french.html">

Defines the "index", "next" and "prev" documents. (Example borrowed from W3C HTML 4.01 specification)

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