<LINK> tags

04-10-2006

I know a lot about HTML, but all this time I don't know what the <LINK>
tags in the head do. There are those that call a stylesheet, favicon,
etc. But what about those that state the contents of the page, identify
the next and previous page, etc. Do some browsers support them or are
they just for organization or something?

04-10-2006

The Numerator wrote:
> I don't know what the <LINK> tags in the head do.

> what about those that state the contents of the page, identify the
> next and previous page, etc. Do some browsers support them or are
> they just for organization or something?

Firefox has -- or had -- an extension that would give users access to
the urls in <link> elements. The extension does not work with the latest
version, and there have been no updates for some time.

Opera has this built in. There are a few other browsers that also have
support for it. As you might have guessed, IE is not one.

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04-11-2006

Brian wrote:
> Firefox has -- or had -- an extension that would give users access to
> the urls in <link> elements. The extension does not work with the latest
> version, and there have been no updates for some time.

The Mozilla / SeaMonkey suite has native support for LINK elements, one
reason I prefer it over the more-hyped Firefox.

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Dan

04-11-2006

The Numerator wrote:
> I know a lot about HTML, but all this time I don't know what the <LINK>
> tags in the head do. There are those that call a stylesheet, favicon,
> etc. But what about those that state the contents of the page, identify
> the next and previous page, etc. Do some browsers support them or are
> they just for organization or something?

Some info about LINK tags and other HTML head / metadata elements is in
my site:

http://webtips.dan.info/titles.html

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Dan

04-11-2006

The Numerator wrote:
> I know a lot about HTML, but all this time I don't know what the <LINK>
> tags in the head do. There are those that call a stylesheet, favicon,
> etc. But what about those that state the contents of the page, identify
> the next and previous page, etc. Do some browsers support them or are
> they just for organization or something?
>
See <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html>, section 12.3.

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04-11-2006

In article <>,
Brian <> wrote:
>Firefox has -- or had -- an extension that would give users access to
>the urls in <link> elements. The extension does not work with the latest
>version, and there have been no updates for some time.

>
>Opera has this built in. There are a few other browsers that also have
>support for it. As you might have guessed, IE is not one.

Lynx does it too.

-A

04-11-2006

Brian wrote:

> Opera has this built in. There are a few other browsers that also have
> support for it. As you might have guessed, IE is not one.

Mozilla (0.9.5-0.9.9 and 1.1+) has support too and iCab. Also, a few older
browsers like Mosaic and UdiWWW. Most command-line browsers include
support for <LINK>, including Lynx.

There is an add-in for IE too:
http://www.draig.de/LinkBar/index.en.html

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04-11-2006

Brian wrote:
> The Numerator wrote:
> > I don't know what the <LINK> tags in the head do.
>
> > what about those that state the contents of the page, identify the
> > next and previous page, etc. Do some browsers support them or are
> > they just for organization or something?
>
> Firefox has -- or had -- an extension that would give users access to
> the urls in <link> elements. The extension does not work with the latest
> version, and there have been no updates for some time.

>
> Opera has this built in. There are a few other browsers that also have
> support for it. As you might have guessed, IE is not one.

?

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="Bx2/css/default.css">
<script type="text/javascript">
function init() {
var lnk = document.getElementsByTagName('LINK');
for (var i=0; i<lnk.length; i++) {
alert(lnk[i].href);
// Or get the URI content over Ajax if the same domain.
// Or get the style sheet content from any domain
// (the latter not supported yet only by Opera)
}
}

window.onload = init;
</script>
</head>

<body>

</body>
</html>

04-11-2006

Brian wrote:
> Firefox has -- or had -- an extension that would give users access to
> the urls in <link> elements. The extension does not work with the latest
> version, and there have been no updates for some time.

This reason alone makes me want to figure out how to do scripting in FF,
so I can write a new LINK bar. I was a big proponent of LINK support in
Mozilla, and it's one thing I still miss in FF.

Tim

04-11-2006

<http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/WWW/LINK/>

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