Anchor. Primarily used as a hypertext link. The link can be to another page, a part of a page or any other location on the web.

Note: An anchor (a point in a page where a link can jump to) does not need to be defined with the a tag. Applying the id attribute to any tag will achieve this.

Required Attributes

None.

Optional Attributes

• href can be used to specify the target of a link.
• charset can be used to specify the character set of the target of a link.
• type can be used to specify the MIME type of the target of a link.
• hreflang can be used to specify the language (in the form of a language code) of the target of a link. It should only be used when href is also used.
• rel can be used to specify the relationship of the target of the link to the current page.
• rev can be used to specify the relationship of the current page to the target of the link.
• accesskey can be used to associate a keyboard shortcut to the element.
• tabindex can be used to specify where the element appears in the tab order of the page.
• id, class, title, dir, xml:lang, onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup, style - see Common Attributes