Annotation of html5/spec/the-link-element.html, revision 1.103
1.88 mike 1: <!DOCTYPE html>
1.96 mike 2: <html lang="en-US-x-Hixie"><head><title>4.2.4 The link element — HTML5</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="alert.css"><style type="text/css">
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1.85 mike 196: .stability {
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1.1 mike 233:
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336:
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1.96 mike 355: </script>
1.1 mike 356: <script src="link-fixup.js"></script>
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362:
363: <h1>HTML5</h1>
1.103 ! mike 364: <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 1.5618.</p>
1.1 mike 365:
1.98 mike 366: <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="w3c-working-draft-29-march-2012">W3C Working Draft 29 March 2012</h2>
1.85 mike 367: </div>
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374:
1.85 mike 375: <h4 id="the-link-element"><span class="secno">4.2.4 </span>The <dfn><code>link</code></dfn> element</h4>
376:
377: <dl class="element"><dt><a href="element-definitions.html#element-dfn-categories" title="element-dfn-categories">Categories</a>:</dt>
1.1 mike 378: <dd><a href="content-models.html#metadata-content">Metadata content</a>.</dd>
1.25 mike 379: <dt><a href="element-definitions.html#element-dfn-contexts" title="element-dfn-contexts">Contexts in which this element can be used</a>:</dt>
1.1 mike 380: <dd>Where <a href="content-models.html#metadata-content">metadata content</a> is expected.</dd>
381: <dd>In a <code><a href="the-noscript-element.html#the-noscript-element">noscript</a></code> element that is a child of a <code><a href="the-head-element.html#the-head-element">head</a></code> element.</dd>
1.25 mike 382: <dt><a href="element-definitions.html#element-dfn-content-model" title="element-dfn-content-model">Content model</a>:</dt>
1.1 mike 383: <dd>Empty.</dd>
1.25 mike 384: <dt><a href="element-definitions.html#element-dfn-attributes" title="element-dfn-attributes">Content attributes</a>:</dt>
1.1 mike 385: <dd><a href="global-attributes.html#global-attributes">Global attributes</a></dd>
386: <dd><code title="attr-link-href"><a href="#attr-link-href">href</a></code></dd>
387: <dd><code title="attr-link-rel"><a href="#attr-link-rel">rel</a></code></dd>
388: <dd><code title="attr-link-media"><a href="#attr-link-media">media</a></code></dd>
389: <dd><code title="attr-link-hreflang"><a href="#attr-link-hreflang">hreflang</a></code></dd>
390: <dd><code title="attr-link-type"><a href="#attr-link-type">type</a></code></dd>
391: <dd><code title="attr-link-sizes"><a href="links.html#attr-link-sizes">sizes</a></code></dd>
392: <dd>Also, the <code title="attr-link-title"><a href="#attr-link-title">title</a></code> attribute has special semantics on this element.</dd>
1.25 mike 393: <dt><a href="element-definitions.html#element-dfn-dom" title="element-dfn-dom">DOM interface</a>:</dt>
1.1 mike 394: <dd>
395: <pre class="idl">interface <dfn id="htmllinkelement">HTMLLinkElement</dfn> : <a href="elements.html#htmlelement">HTMLElement</a> {
396: attribute boolean <a href="#dom-link-disabled" title="dom-link-disabled">disabled</a>;
397: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-link-href" title="dom-link-href">href</a>;
398: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-link-rel" title="dom-link-rel">rel</a>;
399: readonly attribute <a href="infrastructure.html#domtokenlist">DOMTokenList</a> <a href="#dom-link-rellist" title="dom-link-relList">relList</a>;
400: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-link-media" title="dom-link-media">media</a>;
401: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-link-hreflang" title="dom-link-hreflang">hreflang</a>;
402: attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-link-type" title="dom-link-type">type</a>;
403: [PutForwards=<span title="dom-DOMSettableTokenList-value">value</span>] readonly attribute <a href="infrastructure.html#domsettabletokenlist">DOMSettableTokenList</a> <a href="#dom-link-sizes" title="dom-link-sizes">sizes</a>;
404: };
405: <a href="#htmllinkelement">HTMLLinkElement</a> implements <a href="infrastructure.html#linkstyle">LinkStyle</a>;</pre>
406: </dd>
407: </dl><p>The <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> element allows authors to link their
1.85 mike 408: document to other resources.</p>
409:
410: <p>The destination of the link(s) is given by the <dfn id="attr-link-href" title="attr-link-href"><code>href</code></dfn> attribute, which must
1.1 mike 411: be present and must contain a <a href="urls.html#valid-non-empty-url-potentially-surrounded-by-spaces">valid non-empty URL potentially
412: surrounded by spaces</a>. <span class="impl">If the <code title="attr-link-href"><a href="#attr-link-href">href</a></code> attribute is absent, then the
1.85 mike 413: element does not define a link.</span></p>
414:
415: <p>A <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> element must have <code title="attr-link-rel"><a href="#attr-link-rel">rel</a></code> attribute.</p>
416:
417:
418: <p>The types of link indicated (the relationships) are given by the
1.1 mike 419: value of the <dfn id="attr-link-rel" title="attr-link-rel"><code>rel</code></dfn>
420: attribute, which, if present, must have a value that is a <a href="common-microsyntaxes.html#set-of-space-separated-tokens">set
421: of space-separated tokens</a>. The <a href="links.html#linkTypes">allowed
422: keywords and their meanings</a> are defined in a later
423: section. <span class="impl">If the <code title="attr-link-rel"><a href="#attr-link-rel">rel</a></code> attribute is absent, has no
424: keywords, or if none of the keywords used are allowed according to
425: the definitions in this specification, then the element does not
1.85 mike 426: create any links.</span></p>
427:
428: <p>Two categories of links can be created using the
1.1 mike 429: <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> element: <a href="links.html#external-resource-link" title="external resource
430: link">Links to external resources</a> and <a href="links.html#hyperlink" title="hyperlink">hyperlinks</a>. The <a href="links.html#linkTypes">link
431: types section</a> defines whether a particular link type is an
432: external resource or a hyperlink. One <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> element can
433: create multiple links (of which some might be external resource
434: links and some might be hyperlinks); exactly which and how many
435: links are created depends on the keywords given in the <code title="attr-link-rel"><a href="#attr-link-rel">rel</a></code> attribute. User agents must process
1.85 mike 436: the links on a per-link basis, not a per-element basis.</p>
437:
438: <p class="note">Each link created for a <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> element is
1.1 mike 439: handled separately. For instance, if there are two <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code>
440: elements with <code title="">rel="stylesheet"</code>, they each
441: count as a separate external resource, and each is affected by its
442: own attributes independently. Similarly, if a single
443: <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> element has a <code title="attr-link-rel"><a href="#attr-link-rel">rel</a></code> attribute with the value <code title="">next stylesheet</code>, it creates both a
444: <a href="links.html#hyperlink">hyperlink</a> (for the <code title="rel-next"><a href="links.html#link-type-next">next</a></code>
445: keyword) and an <a href="links.html#external-resource-link">external resource link</a> (for the <code title="rel-stylesheet"><a href="links.html#link-type-stylesheet">stylesheet</a></code> keyword), and they are
1.85 mike 446: affected by other attributes (such as <code title="attr-link-media"><a href="#attr-link-media">media</a></code> or <code title="attr-link-title"><a href="#attr-link-title">title</a></code>) differently.</p>
447:
448: <div class="example">
1.1 mike 449:
450: <p>For example, the following <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> element creates two
451: hyperlinks (to the same page):</p>
452:
453: <pre><link rel="author license" href="/about"></pre>
454:
455: <p>The two links created by this element are one whose semantic is
456: that the target page has information about the current page's
457: author, and one whose semantic is that the target page has
458: information regarding the license under which the current page is
459: provided.</p>
460:
1.85 mike 461: </div>
462:
463: <p>The exact behavior for links to external resources depends on the
1.1 mike 464: exact relationship, as defined for the relevant link type. Some of
465: the attributes control whether or not the external resource is to be
1.85 mike 466: applied (as defined below).</p>
467:
468: <div class="impl">
1.1 mike 469:
470: <p>For external resources that are represented in the
471: DOM (for example, style sheets), the DOM representation must be made
472: available even if the resource is not applied. To <dfn id="concept-link-obtain" title="concept-link-obtain">obtain the resource</dfn>, the user
473: agent must run the following steps:</p>
474:
475: <ol><li><p>If the <code title="attr-link-href"><a href="#attr-link-href">href</a></code> attribute's
476: value is the empty string, then abort these steps.</p></li>
477:
478: <li><p><a href="urls.html#resolve-a-url" title="resolve a url">Resolve</a> the
479: <a href="urls.html#url">URL</a> given by the <code title="attr-link-href"><a href="#attr-link-href">href</a></code> attribute, relative to the
480: element.</p></li>
481:
482: <li><p>If the previous step fails, then abort these steps.</p></li>
483:
484: <li><p><a href="urls.html#fetch">Fetch</a> the resulting <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute
485: URL</a>.</p></li>
486:
487: </ol><p>User agents may opt to only try to obtain such resources when
488: they are needed, instead of pro-actively <a href="urls.html#fetch" title="fetch">fetching</a> all the external resources that are
489: not applied.</p>
490:
491: <p>The semantics of the protocol used (e.g. HTTP) must be followed
492: when fetching external resources. (For example, redirects will be
493: followed and 404 responses will cause the external resource to not
494: be applied.)</p>
495:
496:
497: <p>Once the attempts to obtain the resource and its <a href="infrastructure.html#critical-subresources">critical
498: subresources</a> are complete, the user agent must, if the loads
499: were successful, <a href="webappapis.html#queue-a-task">queue a task</a> to <a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple
500: event</a> named <code title="event-load">load</code> at the
501: <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> element, or, if the resource or one of its
502: <a href="infrastructure.html#critical-subresources">critical subresources</a> failed to completely load for any
503: reason (e.g. DNS error, HTTP 404 response, a connection being
504: prematurely closed, unsupported Content-Type), <a href="webappapis.html#queue-a-task">queue a
505: task</a> to <a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple event</a> named <code title="event-error">error</code> at the <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code>
506: element. Non-network errors in processing the resource or its
507: subresources (e.g. CSS parse errors, PNG decoding errors) are not
508: failures for the purposes of this paragraph.</p>
509:
510: <p>The <a href="webappapis.html#task-source">task source</a> for these <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">tasks</a> is the <a href="webappapis.html#dom-manipulation-task-source">DOM manipulation task
511: source</a>.</p>
512:
513: <p>The element must <a href="the-end.html#delay-the-load-event">delay the load event</a> of the
514: element's document until all the attempts to obtain the resource and
515: its <a href="infrastructure.html#critical-subresources">critical subresources</a> are complete. (Resources that
516: the user agent has not yet attempted to obtain, e.g. because it is
517: waiting for the resource to be needed, do not <a href="the-end.html#delay-the-load-event">delay the load
518: event</a>.)</p>
519:
520: <hr><p id="linkui">Interactive user agents may provide users with a
521: means to <a href="links.html#following-hyperlinks" title="following hyperlinks">follow the
522: hyperlinks</a> created using the <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> element,
523: somewhere within their user interface. The exact interface is not
524: defined by this specification, but it could include the following
525: information (obtained from the element's attributes, again as
526: defined below), in some form or another (possibly simplified), for
527: each hyperlink created with each <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> element in the
528: document:</p>
529:
530: <ul><li>The relationship between this document and the resource (given
531: by the <code title="attr-link-rel"><a href="#attr-link-rel">rel</a></code> attribute)</li>
532:
533: <li>The title of the resource (given by the <code title="attr-link-title"><a href="#attr-link-title">title</a></code> attribute).</li>
534:
535: <li>The address of the resource (given by the <code title="attr-link-href"><a href="#attr-link-href">href</a></code> attribute).</li>
536:
537: <li>The language of the resource (given by the <code title="attr-link-hreflang"><a href="#attr-link-hreflang">hreflang</a></code> attribute).</li>
538:
539: <li>The optimum media for the resource (given by the <code title="attr-link-media"><a href="#attr-link-media">media</a></code> attribute).</li>
540:
541: </ul><p>User agents could also include other information, such as the
542: type of the resource (as given by the <code title="attr-link-type"><a href="#attr-link-type">type</a></code> attribute).</p>
543:
1.85 mike 544: </div>
545:
546: <p class="note">Hyperlinks created with the <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code>
1.1 mike 547: element and its <code title="attr-link-rel"><a href="#attr-link-rel">rel</a></code> attribute
548: apply to the whole page. This contrasts with the <code title="attr-hyperlink-rel"><a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-rel">rel</a></code> attribute of <code><a href="the-a-element.html#the-a-element">a</a></code>
549: and <code><a href="the-area-element.html#the-area-element">area</a></code> elements, which indicates the type of a link
550: whose context is given by the link's location within the
1.85 mike 551: document.</p>
552:
553: <p>The <dfn id="attr-link-media" title="attr-link-media"><code>media</code></dfn>
1.1 mike 554: attribute says which media the resource applies to. The value must
1.85 mike 555: be a <a href="common-microsyntaxes.html#valid-media-query">valid media query</a>.</p>
556:
557: <div class="impl">
1.1 mike 558:
559: <p>If the link is a <a href="links.html#hyperlink">hyperlink</a> then the <code title="attr-link-media"><a href="#attr-link-media">media</a></code> attribute is purely advisory,
560: and describes for which media the document in question was
561: designed.</p>
562:
563: <p>However, if the link is an <a href="links.html#external-resource-link">external resource link</a>,
564: then the <code title="attr-link-media"><a href="#attr-link-media">media</a></code> attribute is
565: prescriptive. The user agent must apply the external resource when
566: the <code title="attr-link-media"><a href="#attr-link-media">media</a></code> attribute's value
567: <a href="common-microsyntaxes.html#matches-the-environment">matches the environment</a> and the other relevant
568: conditions apply, and must not apply it otherwise.</p>
1.4 mike 569:
1.1 mike 570: <p class="note">The external resource might have further
571: restrictions defined within that limit its applicability. For
572: example, a CSS style sheet might have some <code title="">@media</code> blocks. This specification does not override
573: such further restrictions or requirements.</p>
1.4 mike 574:
1.85 mike 575: </div>
576:
577: <p id="default-media">The default, if the <code title="attr-link-media"><a href="#attr-link-media">media</a></code> attribute is omitted, is "<code title="">all</code>", meaning that by default links apply to all
578: media.</p>
579:
580: <p>The <dfn id="attr-link-hreflang" title="attr-link-hreflang"><code>hreflang</code></dfn>
1.1 mike 581: attribute on the <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> element has the same semantics as
582: the <a href="links.html#attr-hyperlink-hreflang" title="attr-hyperlink-hreflang"><code>hreflang</code>
583: attribute on <code>a</code> and <code>area</code>
1.85 mike 584: elements</a>.</p>
585:
586: <p>The <dfn id="attr-link-type" title="attr-link-type"><code>type</code></dfn> attribute
1.1 mike 587: gives the <a href="infrastructure.html#mime-type">MIME type</a> of the linked resource. It is
588: purely advisory. The value must be a <a href="infrastructure.html#valid-mime-type">valid MIME
1.85 mike 589: type</a>.</p>
590:
591: <p>For <a href="links.html#external-resource-link" title="external resource link">external resource
1.1 mike 592: links</a>, the <code title="attr-link-type"><a href="#attr-link-type">type</a></code> attribute
593: is used as a hint to user agents so that they can avoid fetching
594: resources they do not support. <span class="impl">If the attribute
595: is present, then the user agent must assume that the resource is of
596: the given type (even if that is not a <a href="infrastructure.html#valid-mime-type">valid MIME type</a>,
597: e.g. the empty string). If the attribute is omitted, but the
598: external resource link type has a default type defined, then the
599: user agent must assume that the resource is of that type. If the UA
600: does not support the given <a href="infrastructure.html#mime-type">MIME type</a> for the given link
601: relationship, then the UA should not <a href="#concept-link-obtain" title="concept-link-obtain">obtain</a> the resource; if the UA
602: does support the given <a href="infrastructure.html#mime-type">MIME type</a> for the given link
603: relationship, then the UA should <a href="#concept-link-obtain" title="concept-link-obtain">obtain</a> the resource at the
604: appropriate time as specified for the <a href="links.html#external-resource-link">external resource
605: link</a>'s particular type. If the attribute is omitted, and the
606: external resource link type does not have a default type defined,
607: but the user agent would <a href="#concept-link-obtain" title="concept-link-obtain">obtain</a> the resource if the type
608: was known and supported, then the user agent should <a href="#concept-link-obtain" title="concept-link-obtain">obtain</a> the resource under the
1.85 mike 609: assumption that it will be supported.</span></p>
610:
611: <div class="impl">
1.1 mike 612:
613: <p>User agents must not consider the <code title="attr-link-type"><a href="#attr-link-type">type</a></code> attribute authoritative —
614: upon fetching the resource, user agents must not use the <code title="attr-link-type"><a href="#attr-link-type">type</a></code> attribute to determine its actual
615: type. Only the actual type (as defined in the next paragraph) is
616: used to determine whether to <em>apply</em> the resource, not the
617: aforementioned assumed type.</p>
618:
619: <p id="concept-link-type-sniffing">If the external resource link
620: type defines rules for processing the resource's <a href="urls.html#content-type" title="Content-Type">Content-Type metadata</a>, then those rules
621: apply. Otherwise, if the resource is expected to be an image, user
622: agents may apply the <a href="urls.html#content-type-sniffing:-image" title="Content-Type sniffing:
623: image">image sniffing rules</a>, with the <var title="">official
624: type</var> being the type determined from the resource's <a href="urls.html#content-type" title="Content-Type">Content-Type metadata</a>, and use the
625: resulting sniffed type of the resource as if it was the actual
626: type. Otherwise, if neither of these conditions apply or if the user
627: agent opts not to apply the image sniffing rules, then the user
628: agent must use the resource's <a href="urls.html#content-type" title="Content-Type">Content-Type metadata</a> to determine the
629: type of the resource. If there is no type metadata, but the external
630: resource link type has a default type defined, then the user agent
631: must assume that the resource is of that type.</p>
632:
633: <p class="note">The <code title="rel-stylesheet"><a href="links.html#link-type-stylesheet">stylesheet</a></code>
634: link type defines rules for processing the resource's <a href="urls.html#content-type" title="Content-Type">Content-Type metadata</a>.</p>
635:
636: <p>Once the user agent has established the type of the resource, the
637: user agent must apply the resource if it is of a supported type and
638: the other relevant conditions apply, and must ignore the resource
639: otherwise.</p>
640:
641: <div class="example">
642:
643: <p>If a document contains style sheet links labeled as follows:</p>
644:
645: <pre><link rel="stylesheet" href="A" type="text/plain">
646: <link rel="stylesheet" href="B" type="text/css">
647: <link rel="stylesheet" href="C"></pre>
648:
649: <p>...then a compliant UA that supported only CSS style sheets
650: would fetch the B and C files, and skip the A file (since
651: <code>text/plain</code> is not the <a href="infrastructure.html#mime-type">MIME type</a> for CSS style
652: sheets).</p>
653:
654: <p>For files B and C, it would then check the actual types returned
655: by the server. For those that are sent as <code>text/css</code>, it
656: would apply the styles, but for those labeled as
657: <code>text/plain</code>, or any other type, it would not.</p>
658:
659: <p>If one of the two files was returned without a
660: <a href="urls.html#content-type">Content-Type</a> metadata, or with a syntactically
661: incorrect type like <code title="">Content-Type: "null"</code>, then the default type
662: for <code title="rel-stylesheet"><a href="links.html#link-type-stylesheet">stylesheet</a></code> links would kick
663: in. Since that default type is <code title="">text/css</code>, the
664: style sheet <em>would</em> nonetheless be applied.</p>
665:
666: </div>
667:
1.85 mike 668: </div>
669:
670: <p>The <dfn id="attr-link-title" title="attr-link-title"><code>title</code></dfn>
1.1 mike 671: attribute gives the title of the link. With one exception, it is
672: purely advisory. The value is text. The exception is for style sheet
673: links, where the <code title="attr-link-title"><a href="#attr-link-title">title</a></code>
1.85 mike 674: attribute defines <a href="infrastructure.html#alternative-style-sheet-sets">alternative style sheet sets</a>.</p>
675:
676: <p class="note">The <code title="attr-link-title"><a href="#attr-link-title">title</a></code>
1.1 mike 677: attribute on <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> elements differs from the global
678: <code title="attr-title"><a href="global-attributes.html#the-title-attribute">title</a></code> attribute of most other
679: elements in that a link without a title does not inherit the title
1.85 mike 680: of the parent element: it merely has no title.</p>
681:
682: <p>The <code title="attr-link-sizes"><a href="links.html#attr-link-sizes">sizes</a></code> attribute is used
1.1 mike 683: with the <code title="rel-icon"><a href="links.html#rel-icon">icon</a></code> link type. The attribute
684: must not be specified on <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> elements that do not have
685: a <code title="attr-link-rel"><a href="#attr-link-rel">rel</a></code> attribute that specifies
1.85 mike 686: the <code title="rel-icon"><a href="links.html#rel-icon">icon</a></code> keyword.</p>
687:
688: <div class="impl">
1.1 mike 689:
1.50 mike 690:
691:
692: <p>HTTP <code title="http-link">Link:</code> header fields, if
693: supported, must be assumed to come before any links in the document,
694: in the order that they were given in the HTTP message. These header
695: fields are to be processed according to the rules given in the
696: relevant specifications. <a href="references.html#refsHTTP">[HTTP]</a> <a href="references.html#refsWEBLINK">[WEBLINK]</a></p>
697:
698: <p class="note">Registration of relation types in HTTP Link: header
699: fields is distinct from <a href="links.html#linkTypes">HTML link types</a>,
700: and thus their semantics can be different from same-named HTML
701: types.</p>
1.4 mike 702:
1.1 mike 703: <p>The IDL attributes <dfn id="dom-link-href" title="dom-link-href"><code>href</code></dfn>, <dfn id="dom-link-rel" title="dom-link-rel"><code>rel</code></dfn>, <dfn id="dom-link-media" title="dom-link-media"><code>media</code></dfn>, <dfn id="dom-link-hreflang" title="dom-link-hreflang"><code>hreflang</code></dfn>, <dfn id="dom-link-type" title="dom-link-type"><code>type</code></dfn>, and <dfn id="dom-link-sizes" title="dom-link-sizes"><code>sizes</code></dfn> each must
704: <a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#reflect">reflect</a> the respective content attributes of the same
705: name.</p>
706:
707: <p>The IDL attribute <dfn id="dom-link-rellist" title="dom-link-rellist"><code>relList</code></dfn> <span class="impl">must</span> <a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#reflect" title="reflect">reflect</a> the <code title="attr-link-rel"><a href="#attr-link-rel">rel</a></code> content attribute.</p>
708:
1.85 mike 709: </div>
710:
711: <p>The IDL attribute <dfn id="dom-link-disabled" title="dom-link-disabled"><code>disabled</code></dfn> only applies
1.1 mike 712: to style sheet links. When the <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> element defines a
713: style sheet link, then the <code title="dom-link-disabled"><a href="#dom-link-disabled">disabled</a></code> attribute behaves as
714: defined <a href="styling.html#dom-linkstyle-disabled" title="dom-linkstyle-disabled">for the alternative
715: style sheets DOM</a>. For all other <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> elements it
1.85 mike 716: always return false and does nothing on setting.</p>
717:
718: <p>The <code><a href="infrastructure.html#linkstyle">LinkStyle</a></code> interface is also implemented by
1.1 mike 719: this element; the <a href="styling.html#styling">styling processing model</a> defines
1.85 mike 720: how. <a href="references.html#refsCSSOM">[CSSOM]</a></p>
721:
722: <div class="example">
1.1 mike 723:
724: <p>Here, a set of <code><a href="#the-link-element">link</a></code> elements provide some style
725: sheets:</p>
726:
727: <pre><!-- a persistent style sheet -->
728: <link rel="stylesheet" href="default.css">
729:
730: <!-- the preferred alternate style sheet -->
731: <link rel="stylesheet" href="green.css" title="Green styles">
732:
733: <!-- some alternate style sheets -->
734: <link rel="alternate stylesheet" href="contrast.css" title="High contrast">
735: <link rel="alternate stylesheet" href="big.css" title="Big fonts">
736: <link rel="alternate stylesheet" href="wide.css" title="Wide screen"></pre>
737:
1.85 mike 738: </div>
739:
740: <div class="example">
1.1 mike 741:
742: <p>The following example shows how you can specify versions of the
743: page that use alternative formats, are aimed at other languages,
744: and that are intended for other media:</p>
745:
746: <pre><link rel=alternate href="/en/html" hreflang=en type=text/html title="English HTML">
747: <link rel=alternate href="/fr/html" hreflang=fr type=text/html title="French HTML">
748: <link rel=alternate href="/en/html/print" hreflang=en type=text/html media=print title="English HTML (for printing)">
749: <link rel=alternate href="/fr/html/print" hreflang=fr type=text/html media=print title="French HTML (for printing)">
750: <link rel=alternate href="/en/pdf" hreflang=en type=application/pdf title="English PDF">
751: <link rel=alternate href="/fr/pdf" hreflang=fr type=application/pdf title="French PDF"></pre>
752:
1.85 mike 753: </div>
754:
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759: </body></html>
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