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326:
327: <h1>HTML5</h1>
1.7 ! mike 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 1.5477.</p>
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1.6 mike 330: <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-16-december-2011">Editor's Draft 16 December 2011</h2>
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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:
516: </div></body></html>
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