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Specifies a comment. Everything contained within  will not be displayed by the browser.



This is mainly used for information such as the document's author, e-mail address, the document's location, etc. It can also be used to separate sections of the documents making for easy revision.

	I.E.	Netscape
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Stands for anchor. Is used in links and as setting the destination of a link. Only used with the 3 common attributes.

name=

Specifies a name for that part in the document. That way you can target that part of the document using that name in combination with href.
href=

Creates a link to a place in the current document, to another document on the same system, or a document on another system. To make to like to a section of the same document, you must use the name attribute to give that part of the document a name. You then target that name.

<a name="address"> <a href="#address">Info on the address tag.</a>

Try it. It works.
Info on the address tag.

Notice that everything that is contained between the <a> and </a> is made the link. This means the text, or image, is the "hotspot".
To make a link to a document on the same system, you specify it's file name or relative path.

<a href="index.html">Go to my main page.</a> Go to my main page.

This example is of a document located in the same directory as the one you are reading now.
To make a link to a document on another system, you must use the complete URL of the document.

<a href="http://www.digits.com/">Get free counter for your home page.</a> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/ie/">Get Internet Explorer 5.</a>

Get a free counter for your home page.
Get Internet Explorer 5.

To make a link to a section in another document, you use the filename plus the name of that section.

<a href=tagsb.html#blockquote>Info on using blockquote.</a>

Info on using blockquote.

You can also use href to let the client send mail to you. The way you do this is by using href="mailto:email here".

<a href="mailto:bgates@microsoft.com">Write me.</a>

Write me. -This is a joke. Don't send mail here.

You can specify a subject for the e-mail by adding ?subject=subject here to the end of the e-mail address in the link.

<a href="mailto:bgates@microsoft.com?subject=I like Microsoft.">Write me</a>

Write me
target=

Used to display the link in a frame. (See my Frames Tutorial.) The target is whatever you named the frame using name=. If you have a frame named "main" and you wanted Geocities homepage to appear in "main" when the client clicked on their link, you would do this:

<a href="http://www.geocities.com/" target="main">Geocities, your home on the web.</a>

The names of frames cannot begin with the underscore (_). There are a few reserved names that do. They perform special functions when used with the target attribute.

_blank - Loads the link into a new unnamed window.
_parent - Loads the link over the document's parent (the document that created the frame). If there is no parent, it becomes _self.
_self - Loads the link over the document. (i.e. in the same frame as the document that contains the link.)
_top - Loads the link at the top level clearing the frames.

These special names and the names of frames can also be used in conjunction with the <base> tag.

	I.E.	Netscape
<a>	X	X
...name=	X	X
...href=	X	X
...target=	X	X

A logical style for displaying address information.

<address> Santa Claus 1 Santa Claus Lane North Pole </address>

Santa Claus
1 Santa Claus Lane
North Pole

	I.E.	Netscape
<address>	X	X

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