Miscellaneous tags Name Purpose Attributes Contents A Used to create links (anchors) to poin ts within the same document or to other documents NAME HREF text APPLET Use to embed JavaTM applets into a page (see below) PARAM text BR Line break, inserts carriage return CLEAR none FONT Font or color change CO LOR SIZE text HR Horizontal rule (draws line across p age) (see below) none IMG In-lined (embedded) image (see below) none PARAM A parameter for the APPLET tag NAME VALUE none Anchors The A tag is links a single HTML document to other documents. These other documents can be other HTML documents or even audio, image or video files. Of the two attributes listed above, HREF is used to specify a location to which the anchor points.. This could be a document anywhere within the World-Wide Web, or a related document on the same server, or even a section within the same document. For example, the following code example creates a link to our main home page: <A HREF="http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/">Our home page< ;/A> The HREF attribute given above has what is called an absolute URL. In addition to absolute references, documents located on the same server may be specified by the path starting from root ("/") or a reference relative to the current document. The NAME attribute allows a symbolic name to be set for a particular location within the document. This location can then be referred to by appending a pound symbol (#) to the document's URL, or simply jumping referring to the location in an HREF located in the same document. The following two tags demonstrate jumping from one location to another: <A NAME="top">top of the document</a> ... Go to the <A HREF="#top">top of the document </A> When the user selects the second anchor, the browser will go to the location at which the first anchor is located. Applets Some browsers programs support the embedding "applets" within theare given in the table below, with paragraphs describing them following the table: Attribute Parameter ALIGN <A HREF="mapfile.map"> <IMG SRC="mapfile.gif" ISMAP> </A> Author: Ben Yoshino (ben@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu) Comments, Questions? | E-mail: webmaster@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu Last updated on Monday, February 05, 2001 Copyright © 2001 University of Hawai`i, College of Engineering, Computer Facility All rights reserved.