Exploring the (X)HTML Link Element
Most Web authors are familiar with the <link> element included within the <head> element of many (X)HTML documents. The <link> element enables authors to associate external resources to the (X)HTML document. <link> element references include various types of metadata, navigation, and styling information. This brief post provides examples of these and other important uses of the (X)HTML <link> element.
<!-- indicate the starting location -->
<link rel="start" href="http://domain.com/directory/" />
<!-- indicate the previous item -->
<link rel="prev" href="http://domain.com/directory/prev/" />
<!-- indicate the next item -->
<link rel="next" href="http://domain.com/directory/next/" />
<!-- indicates the index location -->
<link rel="contents" href="http://domain.com/directory/index.html" />
<!-- indicates location of a help file -->
<link rel="help" href="http://domain.com/directory/help.html" />
<!-- indicates location of a site feed -->
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://domain.com/directory/feed.rdf" />
<!-- indicates location of FOAF metadata -->
<link rel="meta" type="application/rdf+xml" title="FOAF" href="http://domain.com/directory/foaf.xrdf" />
<!-- provides contact information -->
<link rev="made" href="mailto:name@domain.com" title="contact name" />
<!-- indicates location of translated document -->
<link rel="alternate" href="http://domain.com/directory/translated.html" hreflang="fr" title="french translation" />
<!-- provides a link to the stylesheet -->
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This is article #231, posted by Perishable on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 @ 10:38am. Categorized as Structure, and tagged with attribute, elements, html, links, markup, xhtml. Updated on November 05, 2007. Visited 14412 times. 0 Responses »
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