A (Anchor)

Referred to as the ANCHOR tag, and identifies the location of a link within the HTML document. Most commonly used to create a hyperlink along with the HREF= attribute. For example:

<A Href="www.WalkTheGeek.com">WalkTheGeek<A>

A Attributes:

ACCESSKEY=" ... "

Assigns a key sequence to the element. That is, a letter is assigned that would activate that object. For example, you could assign the letter "I" to activate a link to the 'Index' page.

CHARSET=" ... "

This attribute specifies character encoding. The default is 'ISO-8859-1' for languages that use the english alphabet. The entire list of character sets are defined in RFC2045.

CLASS=" ... "

This attribute indicates the style 'class' applicable to the tag to which it has been assigned, the style 'class' being a function of a style sheet. For example, assume the style class 'relaxed' includes text with a font size of 8, and the style class 'active' includes text with a font size of 12. Using the CLASS="relaxed" attribute with a tag will cause the text within that tag to be displayed with a font size of 8. Using the CLASS="active" attribute with a tag will cause the text within that tag to be displayed with a font size of 12.

COORDS="x1,y1,x2,y2"

This attribute defines a clickable area within a document. The co-ordinates are measured in pixels from the top left corner of the document.

HREF="URL"

This attribute is used to specify the location of a relative or absolute location (URL) of a file to which you want to provide a hyperlink. A hyperlink can point to a different document, another location within the same document, or to any image or program file the browser or operating system supports.

ID=" ... "

The ID attribute is used to assign a unique ID selector (identification) to the tag in which it is invoked. A style may be assigned to that ID, which will effect only that one instance of the attribute.

NAME=" ... "

This tag is used to mark a location within a document with a unique name. This named location can then be quickly moved to by means of a hyperlink using the HREF="#URL" attribute. Note the pound (#) sign before the URL. The pound sign used in this way indicates to the browser that the target location has been defined by the NAME=" ... " attribute.

REL=" ... "

This attribute is used to specify a relationship hyperlink.

REV=" ... "

This attribute is used to specify a reverse relationship hyperlink.

SHAPE="RECT, CIRCLE, or POLY"

This attribute is used to define the shape of the clickable area. RECT is used for rectangles and squares, CIRCLE is obviously for circles, and POLY is for any polygon with three or more points, including squares.

STYLE=" ... "

Used to specify which style sheet commands to apply to the instance of the STYLE attribute invoked within the tag.

TABINDEX="n"

This attribute defines the 'tabbing order' of the document. For example, assume a document has ten fields, numbered one to ten, which require your input. The first field, with TABINDEX="1", is the active field. Pressing the tab key would move the cursor to TABINDEX="2", regardless of its physical location within the document.

TARGET=" ... "

This attribute indicates the name of the frame in which the linked document, image, or program file will be loaded. Frame names are defined with the FRAME tag.

TITLE=" ... "

The TITLE attribute is used to display a note or information in a popup window pertaining to the object to which it was assigned. The popup window is invoked by holding the mouse pointer over the object.

This tag also accepts the following Event Handlers:

onClick onDblClick onMouseDown onMouseUp onMouseOver onMouseMove onMouseOut onKeyPress onKeyDown onKeyUp