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What does NAME, REL, REV and TITLE means on and anchor tag?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The NAME attribute is supposed to give an anchor (and all other elements) an identifier, widely used for scripting purposes. But it has been replaced by ID.

    TITLE signifies a title of the link. It's different from NAME/ID in that the latter is an internal identifier and the former is a human-readable string.

    REL signifies the relationship of the linked resource to the current document. REL will accept different values such as "next", "previous", "alternate", "stylesheet", among others.

    REV signifies a reverse link. But as far as I know, REL="previous" is preferred.

    An example usage:

    <a id="a1" href="something.html" rel="next" title="The Next Document">Click Here</a>

    "id" can be used in CSS to provide the anchor its own unique style, for example:

    #a1 { color : #00FF33 ; font-weight : bold ; }

    'rel="next"' says that the value of "href" is the next document in a series to which the current document (where the anchor appears) belongs.

    "title" gives a title that the viewer may find useful as the linked text only says "Click Here". The standard behaviour of the title attribute is a tooltip being displayed containing the title's value when the user hovers over the anchor and lets the cursor stay for a short time.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think this website has the meanings. I hope this helped :).

    http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp

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