Annotation of html5/spec/the-a-element.html, revision 1.1
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! 323: <link href="the-em-element.html" title="4.6.2 The em element" rel="next">
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! 325: <p><a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img alt="W3C" height="48" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home" width="72"></a></p>
! 326:
! 327: <h1>HTML5</h1>
! 328: <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="a-vocabulary-and-associated-apis-for-html-and-xhtml">A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML</h2><p>This is revision 1.5469.</p>
! 329:
! 330: <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-9-december-2011">Editor's Draft 9 December 2011</h2>
! 331: </div><nav class="prev_next">
! 332: <a href="text-level-semantics.html">← 4.6 Text-level semantics</a> –
! 333: <a href="index.html#contents">Table of contents</a> –
! 334: <a href="the-em-element.html">4.6.2 The em element →</a>
! 335: </nav>
! 336:
! 337: <h4 id="the-a-element"><span class="secno">4.6.1 </span>The <dfn><code>a</code></dfn> element</h4><dl class="element"><dt>Categories</dt>
! 338: <dd><a href="content-models.html#flow-content">Flow content</a>.</dd>
! 339: <dd>When the element only contains <a href="content-models.html#phrasing-content">phrasing content</a>: <a href="content-models.html#phrasing-content">phrasing content</a>.</dd>
! 340: <dd><a href="content-models.html#interactive-content">Interactive content</a>.</dd>
! 341: <dd><a href="content-models.html#palpable-content">Palpable content</a>.</dd>
! 342: <dt>Contexts in which this element can be used:</dt>
! 343: <dd>When the element only contains <a href="content-models.html#phrasing-content">phrasing content</a>: where <a href="content-models.html#phrasing-content">phrasing content</a> is expected.</dd>
! 344: <dd>Otherwise: where <a href="content-models.html#flow-content">flow content</a> is expected.</dd>
! 345: <dt>Content model:</dt>
! 346: <dd><a href="content-models.html#transparent">Transparent</a>, but there must be no <a href="content-models.html#interactive-content">interactive content</a> descendant.</dd>
! 347: <dt>Content attributes:</dt>
! 348: <dd><a href="global-attributes.html#global-attributes">Global attributes</a></dd>
! 349: <dd><code title="attr-hyperlink-href"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-href">href</a></code></dd>
! 350: <dd><code title="attr-hyperlink-target"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-target">target</a></code></dd>
! 351: <dd><code title="attr-hyperlink-rel"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-rel">rel</a></code></dd>
! 352: <dd><code title="attr-hyperlink-media"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-media">media</a></code></dd>
! 353: <dd><code title="attr-hyperlink-hreflang"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-hreflang">hreflang</a></code></dd>
! 354: <dd><code title="attr-hyperlink-type"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-type">type</a></code></dd>
! 355: <dt>DOM interface:</dt>
! 356: <dd>
! 357: <pre class="idl">interface <dfn id="htmlanchorelement">HTMLAnchorElement</dfn> : <a href="elements.html#htmlelement">HTMLElement</a> {
! 358: stringifier attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-a-href" title="dom-a-href">href</a>;
! 359: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-a-target" title="dom-a-target">target</a>;
! 360: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-a-rel" title="dom-a-rel">rel</a>;
! 361: readonly attribute <a href="infrastructure.html#domtokenlist">DOMTokenList</a> <a href="#dom-a-rellist" title="dom-a-relList">relList</a>;
! 362: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-a-media" title="dom-a-media">media</a>;
! 363: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-a-hreflang" title="dom-a-hreflang">hreflang</a>;
! 364: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-a-type" title="dom-a-type">type</a>;
! 365:
! 366: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-a-text" title="dom-a-text">text</a>;
! 367:
! 368: // <a href="urls.html#url-decomposition-idl-attributes">URL decomposition IDL attributes</a>
! 369: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-a-protocol" title="dom-a-protocol">protocol</a>;
! 370: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-a-host" title="dom-a-host">host</a>;
! 371: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-a-hostname" title="dom-a-hostname">hostname</a>;
! 372: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-a-port" title="dom-a-port">port</a>;
! 373: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-a-pathname" title="dom-a-pathname">pathname</a>;
! 374: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-a-search" title="dom-a-search">search</a>;
! 375: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-a-hash" title="dom-a-hash">hash</a>;
! 376: };</pre>
! 377: </dd>
! 378: </dl><p>If the <code><a href="#the-a-element">a</a></code> element has an <code title="attr-hyperlink-href"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-href">href</a></code> attribute, then it
! 379: <a href="rendering.html#represents">represents</a> a <a href="links.html#hyperlink">hyperlink</a> (a hypertext
! 380: anchor).</p><p>If the <code><a href="#the-a-element">a</a></code> element has no <code title="attr-hyperlink-href"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-href">href</a></code> attribute, then the element
! 381: <a href="rendering.html#represents">represents</a> a placeholder for where a link might
! 382: otherwise have been placed, if it had been relevant.</p><p>The <code title="attr-hyperlink-target"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-target">target</a></code>,
! 383: <code title="attr-hyperlink-rel"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-rel">rel</a></code>, <code title="attr-hyperlink-media"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-media">media</a></code>, <code title="attr-hyperlink-hreflang"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-hreflang">hreflang</a></code>, and <code title="attr-hyperlink-type"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-type">type</a></code> attributes must be omitted
! 384: if the <code title="attr-hyperlink-href"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-href">href</a></code> attribute is
! 385: not present.</p><div class="example">
! 386: <p>If a site uses a consistent navigation toolbar on every page,
! 387: then the link that would normally link to the page itself could be
! 388: marked up using an <code><a href="#the-a-element">a</a></code> element:</p>
! 389: <pre><nav>
! 390: <ul>
! 391: <li> <a href="/">Home</a> </li>
! 392: <li> <a href="/news">News</a> </li>
! 393: <li> <a>Examples</a> </li>
! 394: <li> <a href="/legal">Legal</a> </li>
! 395: </ul>
! 396: </nav></pre>
! 397: </div><div class="impl">
! 398:
! 399: <p>The <code title="attr-hyperlink-href"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-href">href</a></code>,
! 400: <code title="attr-hyperlink-target"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-target">target</a></code>,
! 401: attributes affect what happens when users <a href="links.html#following-hyperlinks" title="following
! 402: hyperlinks">follow hyperlinks</a>
! 403: created using the <code><a href="#the-a-element">a</a></code> element. The
! 404: <code title="attr-hyperlink-rel"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-rel">rel</a></code>, <code title="attr-hyperlink-media"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-media">media</a></code>, <code title="attr-hyperlink-hreflang"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-hreflang">hreflang</a></code>, and <code title="attr-hyperlink-type"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-type">type</a></code> attributes may be used to
! 405: indicate to the user the likely nature of the target resource before
! 406: the user follows the link.</p>
! 407:
! 408: <p>The <a href="content-models.html#activation-behavior">activation behavior</a> of <code><a href="#the-a-element">a</a></code> elements
! 409: that create <a href="links.html#hyperlink" title="hyperlink">hyperlinks</a> is to run the
! 410: following steps:</p>
! 411:
! 412: <ol><li><p>If the algorithm is not <a href="browsers.html#allowed-to-show-a-pop-up">allowed to show a
! 413: pop-up</a> and either the <code><a href="#the-a-element">a</a></code>
! 414: element's <code title="attr-hyperlink-target"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-target">target</a></code>
! 415: attribute is present and applying <a href="browsers.html#the-rules-for-choosing-a-browsing-context-given-a-browsing-context-name">the rules for choosing a
! 416: browsing context given a browsing context name</a>, using the
! 417: value of the <code title="attr-hyperlink-target"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-target">target</a></code>
! 418: attribute as the browsing context name, would result in there not
! 419: being a chosen browsing context, then throw an
! 420: <code><a href="infrastructure.html#invalidaccesserror">InvalidAccessError</a></code> exception and abort these
! 421: steps.</p></li>
! 422:
! 423: <li><p>If the target of the <code title="event-click"><a href="infrastructure.html#event-click">click</a></code>
! 424: event is an <code><a href="the-img-element.html#the-img-element">img</a></code> element with an <code title="attr-img-ismap"><a href="the-img-element.html#attr-img-ismap">ismap</a></code> attribute specified, then
! 425: server-side image map processing must be performed, as follows:</p>
! 426:
! 427: <ol><li>If the <code title="event-click"><a href="infrastructure.html#event-click">click</a></code> event was a
! 428: real pointing-device-triggered <code title="event-click"><a href="infrastructure.html#event-click">click</a></code> event on the <code><a href="the-img-element.html#the-img-element">img</a></code>
! 429: element, then let <var title="">x</var> be the distance in CSS
! 430: pixels from the left edge of the image's left border, if it has
! 431: one, or the left edge of the image otherwise, to the location of
! 432: the click, and let <var title="">y</var> be the distance in CSS
! 433: pixels from the top edge of the image's top border, if it has
! 434: one, or the top edge of the image otherwise, to the location of
! 435: the click. Otherwise, let <var title="">x</var> and <var title="">y</var> be zero.</li>
! 436:
! 437: <li>Let the <dfn id="hyperlink-suffix"><var>hyperlink suffix</var></dfn> be a U+003F
! 438: QUESTION MARK character, the value of <var title="">x</var>
! 439: expressed as a base-ten integer using ASCII digits, a U+002C
! 440: COMMA character (,), and the value of <var title="">y</var>
! 441: expressed as a base-ten integer using ASCII digits. ASCII digits
! 442: are the characters in the range U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039
! 443: DIGIT NINE (9).</li>
! 444:
! 445: </ol></li>
! 446:
! 447: <li><p>Finally, the user agent must <a href="links.html#following-hyperlinks" title="following
! 448: hyperlinks">follow the hyperlink</a>
! 449: created by the <code><a href="#the-a-element">a</a></code> element, as determined by
! 450: any expressed user preference. If the steps above defined a
! 451: <var><a href="#hyperlink-suffix">hyperlink suffix</a></var>, then take that into account when
! 452: following or downloading the hyperlink.</p></li>
! 453:
! 454: </ol></div><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">a</var> . <code title="dom-a-text"><a href="#dom-a-text">text</a></code></dt>
! 455:
! 456: <dd>
! 457:
! 458: <p>Same as <code><a href="infrastructure.html#textcontent">textContent</a></code>.</p>
! 459:
! 460: </dd>
! 461:
! 462: </dl><div class="impl">
! 463:
! 464: <p>The IDL attributes
! 465: <dfn id="dom-a-href" title="dom-a-href"><code>href</code></dfn>,
! 466: <dfn id="dom-a-target" title="dom-a-target"><code>target</code></dfn>, <dfn id="dom-a-rel" title="dom-a-rel"><code>rel</code></dfn>, <dfn id="dom-a-media" title="dom-a-media"><code>media</code></dfn>, <dfn id="dom-a-hreflang" title="dom-a-hreflang"><code>hreflang</code></dfn>, and <dfn id="dom-a-type" title="dom-a-type"><code>type</code></dfn>, must
! 467: <a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#reflect">reflect</a> the respective content attributes of the same
! 468: name.</p>
! 469:
! 470: <p>The IDL attribute <dfn id="dom-a-rellist" title="dom-a-rellist"><code>relList</code></dfn> must
! 471: <a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#reflect">reflect</a> the <code title="attr-hyperlink-rel"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-rel">rel</a></code>
! 472: content attribute.</p>
! 473:
! 474: <p>The <dfn id="dom-a-text" title="dom-a-text"><code>text</code></dfn> IDL
! 475: attribute, on getting, must return the same value as the
! 476: <code><a href="infrastructure.html#textcontent">textContent</a></code> IDL attribute on the element, and on
! 477: setting, must act as if the <code><a href="infrastructure.html#textcontent">textContent</a></code> IDL attribute
! 478: on the element had been set to the new value.</p>
! 479:
! 480: <p>The <code><a href="#the-a-element">a</a></code> element also supports the complement of
! 481: <a href="urls.html#url-decomposition-idl-attributes">URL decomposition IDL attributes</a>, <dfn id="dom-a-protocol" title="dom-a-protocol"><code>protocol</code></dfn>, <dfn id="dom-a-host" title="dom-a-host"><code>host</code></dfn>, <dfn id="dom-a-port" title="dom-a-port"><code>port</code></dfn>, <dfn id="dom-a-hostname" title="dom-a-hostname"><code>hostname</code></dfn>, <dfn id="dom-a-pathname" title="dom-a-pathname"><code>pathname</code></dfn>, <dfn id="dom-a-search" title="dom-a-search"><code>search</code></dfn>, and <dfn id="dom-a-hash" title="dom-a-hash"><code>hash</code></dfn>. These must follow the
! 482: rules given for <a href="urls.html#url-decomposition-idl-attributes">URL decomposition IDL attributes</a>, with
! 483: the <a href="urls.html#concept-uda-input" title="concept-uda-input">input</a> being the result of
! 484: <a href="urls.html#resolve-a-url" title="resolve a url">resolving</a> the element's <code title="attr-hyperlink-href"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-href">href</a></code> attribute relative to the
! 485: element, if there is such an attribute and resolving it is
! 486: successful, or the empty string otherwise; and the <a href="urls.html#concept-uda-setter" title="concept-uda-setter">common setter action</a> being the
! 487: same as setting the element's <code title="attr-hyperlink-href"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-href">href</a></code> attribute to the new output
! 488: value.</p>
! 489:
! 490: </div><div class="example">
! 491:
! 492: <p>The <code><a href="#the-a-element">a</a></code> element may be wrapped around entire
! 493: paragraphs, lists, tables, and so forth, even entire sections, so
! 494: long as there is no interactive content within (e.g. buttons or
! 495: other links). This example shows how this can be used to make an
! 496: entire advertising block into a link:</p>
! 497:
! 498: <pre><aside class="advertising">
! 499: <h1>Advertising</h1>
! 500: <a href="http://ad.example.com/?adid=1929&amp;pubid=1422">
! 501: <section>
! 502: <h1>Mellblomatic 9000!</h1>
! 503: <p>Turn all your widgets into mellbloms!</p>
! 504: <p>Only $9.99 plus shipping and handling.</p>
! 505: </section>
! 506: </a>
! 507: <a href="http://ad.example.com/?adid=375&amp;pubid=1422">
! 508: <section>
! 509: <h1>The Mellblom Browser</h1>
! 510: <p>Web browsing at the speed of light.</p>
! 511: <p>No other browser goes faster!</p>
! 512: </section>
! 513: </a>
! 514: </aside></pre>
! 515:
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