a href usage

The link html tag

Basic usage


<a href="http://www.crumpeta.com">tech hints</a>

Link titles

The text in the link title will appear when the mouse is placed on top of the link. link title example link

<a href="http://www.crumpeta.com" title="Tech hints and notes">tech hints</a>

Page loading options

open up page in the entire window

Use this link option to bust out of frames.
full browser window example link

<a href="http://www.crumpeta.com" target="_top">Link to this page</a>

open up in a new popup window

popup window example link

<a href="http://www.crumpeta.com" target="_blank">Link to this page</a>

open up in the current frame

current frame example link

<a href="http://www.crumpeta.com" target="_self">Link to this page</a>

open up in the parent frame

parent frame example link

<a href="http://www.crumpeta.com" target="_parent">Link to this page</a>

open up a page in a named frame

<a href="http://www.crumpeta.com" target="name of frame">Link to this page</a>

open up in the search section of the browser

Opens up the page in a special browser column to the left (using browser default settings) in the left section of the current window - supported by IE5 and above and mozilla.
IE search window example link

<a href="http://www.crumpeta.com" target="_search">Link to this page</a>