HTML Link Tag

Reference on the HTML Link Tag. Including its useful example, and a list of the allowed attributes.

The Link element of HTML is used to link external files with a document.

Its most common use, is perhaps, to link external CSS StyleSheets. But it can also be used to link to different translations of a document.

Attributes

Attribute:	Value:	Description:
Attrs	Other Attributes	Common, I18n, Event
Charset	Character encoding	Character encoding of resource
href	URI	URI for linked resource
hreflang	Language Code	language of resource, if href is used.
type	Media Type	The Content Type of the resource.
rel	Link Types	Space-separated list of forward links
rev	Link Types	Space-separated list of reverse links
media	Media Descriptor	Either a single, or comma-separated list. I.e. "screen,print"

Example

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">

  <head>
    <title>Using the HTML Link Tag</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="StyleSheet.css">
  </head>

  <body>
    <p>How to add a Stylesheet using Link</p>

  </body>

</html>

Attributes

Example

Links