Enables the current document to establish links to external documents.

Members Table

The following table lists the members exposed by the link object.

Attributes/Properties

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Attribute Property Description aria-activedescendant   ariaActivedescendant Sets or retrieves the currently active child element. aria-busy   ariaBusy Sets or retrieves a value indicating whether a live region is finished updating. aria-checked   ariaChecked Sets or retrieves the checked state of this element. aria-controls   ariaControls Sets or retrieves the list of elements that are controlled by the current element. aria-describedby   ariaDescribedby Sets or retrieves a list of elements that describe the current object. aria-disabled   ariaDisabled Sets or retrieves the disabled state of this element. aria-expanded   ariaExpanded Sets or retrieves the expanded state of this element. aria-flowto   ariaFlowto Sets or retrieves the recommended reading order of content. aria-haspopup   ariaHaspopup Sets or retrieves a value indicating whether this element may display a pop-up window. aria-hidden   ariaHidden Sets or retrieves the hidden state of this element. aria-invalid   ariaInvalid Sets or retrieves the error state of this element. aria-labelledby   ariaLabelledby Sets or retrieves a list of elements that provide a label for the current object. aria-level   ariaLevel Sets or retrieves the level of this element. aria-live   ariaLive Sets or retrieves how assistive technology should announce updates to live regions. aria-multiselect   ariaMultiselect Sets or retrieves the multiple-selection state of this element. aria-owns   ariaOwns Sets or retrieves a list of child objects, including elements that are not direct descendants of the current object. aria-posinset   ariaPosinset Sets or retrieves the current position of an item within a set. aria-pressed   ariaPressed Sets or retrieves the pressed state of a button that can be toggled. aria-readonly   ariaReadonly Sets or retrieves the read-only state of this element. aria-relevant   ariaRelevant Sets or retrieves which changes to a live region are relevant. aria-required   ariaRequired Sets or retrieves the form-completion requirement of this element. aria-secret   ariaSecret Sets or retrieves the secret state of this element. aria-selected   ariaSelected Sets or retrieves the selection state of this element. aria-setsize   ariaSetsize Sets or retrieves the set size of this element. aria-valuemax   ariaValuemax Sets or retrieves the maximum value that a user can provide. aria-valuemin   ariaValuemin Sets or retrieves the minimum value that a user can provide. aria-valuenow   ariaValuenow Sets or retrieves the current value of the element. attributes   Retrieves a collection of attributes of the object. canHaveHTML canHaveHTML Retrieves the value indicating whether the object can contain rich HTML markup. CHARSET charset Sets or retrieves the character set used to encode the object. DISABLED disabled Sets or retrieves a value that indicates whether the user can interact with the object. firstChild Retrieves a reference to the first child in the childNodes collection of the object. HREF href Sets or retrieves a destination URL or an anchor point. HREFLANG hreflang Sets or retrieves the language code of the object. ID id Sets or retrieves the string identifying the object. isContentEditable Gets the value that indicates whether the user can edit the contents of the object. isDisabled Gets the value that indicates whether the user can interact with the object. isMultiLine Retrieves the value indicating whether the content of the object contains one or more lines. isTextEdit Retrieves whether a TextRange object can be created using the object. lastChild Retrieves a reference to the last child in the childNodes collection of an object. MEDIA media Sets or retrieves the media type. NAME name Sets or retrieves the name of the object. nextSibling Retrieves a reference to the next child of the parent for the object. nodeName Retrieves the name of a particular type of node. nodeType Retrieves the type of the requested node. nodeValue Sets or retrieves the value of a node. ownerDocument Retrieves the document object associated with the node. parentElement Retrieves the parent object in the object hierarchy. parentNode Retrieves the parent object in the document hierarchy. parentTextEdit Retrieves the container object in the document hierarchy that can be used to create a TextRange containing the original object. previousSibling Retrieves a reference to the previous child of the parent for the object. readyState Retrieves a value that indicates the current state of the object. REL rel Sets or retrieves the relationship between the object and the destination of the link. REV rev Sets or retrieves the relationship between the object and the destination of the link. role   role Sets or retrieves the role for this element. scopeName Gets the namespace defined for the element. sourceIndex Retrieves the ordinal position of the object, in source order, as the object appears in the document's all collection. styleSheet Retrieves an interface pointer that provides access to the style sheet object's properties and methods. tagName Retrieves the tag name of the object. tagUrn Sets or gets the Uniform Resource Name (URN) specified in the namespace declaration. TARGET target Sets or retrieves the window or frame at which to target content. TYPE type Sets or retrieves the MIME type of the object. uniqueID Retrieves an autogenerated, unique identifier for the object. Behavior Description clientCaps Provides information about features supported by Internet Explorer, as well as a way for installing browser components on demand. download Downloads a file and notifies a specified callback function when the download is complete. homePage Contains information about a user's homepage. Collection Description all Returns a reference to the collection of elements contained by the object. attributes Retrieves the collection of attributes belonging to the object. behaviorUrns Returns a collection of Uniform Resource Name (URN) strings identifying the behaviors attached to the element. childNodes Retrieves a collection of HTML Elements and TextNode objects that are direct descendants of the specified object. children Retrieves a collection of DHTML Objects that are direct descendants of the object. Event Description onafterupdate Fires on a databound object after successfully updating the associated data in the data source object. onbeforecopy Fires on the source object before the selection is copied to the system clipboard. onbeforeupdate Fires on a databound object before updating the associated data in the data source object. oncellchange Fires when data changes in the data provider. oncopy Fires on the source element when the user copies the object or selection, adding it to the system clipboard. ondataavailable Fires periodically as data arrives from data source objects that asynchronously transmit their data. ondatasetchanged Fires when the data set exposed by a data source object changes. ondatasetcomplete Fires to indicate that all data is available from the data source object. onerror Fires when an error occurs during object loading. onerrorupdate Fires on a databound object when an error occurs while updating the associated data in the data source object. onfilterchange Fires when a visual filter changes state or completes a transition. onlayoutcomplete Fires when the print or print preview layout process finishes filling the current LayoutRect object with content from the source document. onload Fires immediately after the browser loads the object. onreadystatechange Fires when the state of the object has changed. onresize Fires when the size of the object is about to change. onrowenter Fires to indicate that the current row has changed in the data source and new data values are available on the object. onrowexit Fires just before the data source control changes the current row in the object. onrowsdelete Fires when rows are about to be deleted from the recordset. onrowsinserted Fires just after new rows are inserted in the current recordset. onscroll Fires when the user repositions the scroll box in the scroll bar on the object. Method Description addBehavior Attaches a behavior to the element. applyElement Makes the element either a child or parent of another element. attachEvent Binds the specified function to an event, so that the function gets called whenever the event fires on the object. clearAttributes Removes all attributes and values from the object. cloneNode Copies a reference to the object from the document hierarchy. componentFromPoint Returns the component located at the specified coordinates via certain events. contains Checks whether the given element is contained within the object. detachEvent Unbinds the specified function from the event, so that the function stops receiving notifications when the event fires. doScroll Simulates a click on a scroll bar component. fireEvent Fires a specified event on the object. getAdjacentText Returns the adjacent text string. getAttribute Retrieves the value of the specified attribute. getAttributeNode Retrieves an attribute object referenced by the attribute.name property. getBoundingClientRect Retrieves an object that specifies the bounds of a collection of TextRectangle objects. getClientRects Retrieves a collection of rectangles that describes the layout of the contents of an object or range within the client. Each rectangle describes a single line. getElementsByTagName Retrieves a collection of objects based on the specified element name. hasAttribute   Determines whether an attribute with the specified name exists. hasChildNodes Returns a value that indicates whether the object has children. insertAdjacentElement Inserts an element at the specified location. mergeAttributes Copies all read/write attributes to the specified element. normalize Merges adjacent TextNode objects to produce a normalized document object model. removeAttribute Removes an attribute from an object. removeAttributeNode Removes an attribute object from the object. removeBehavior Detaches a behavior from the element. replaceAdjacentText Replaces the text adjacent to the element. setAttribute Sets the value of the specified attribute. setAttributeNode Sets an attribute object node as part of the object. swapNode Exchanges the location of two objects in the document hierarchy. Object Description HTMLLinkElement Constructor   Defines the properties and methods inherited by objects in the HTMLLinkElement Constructor prototype chain. Style attribute Style property Description -ms-background-position-x backgroundPositionX Sets or retrieves the x-coordinate of the backgroundPosition property. -ms-background-position-y backgroundPositionY Sets or retrieves the y-coordinate of the backgroundPosition property. -ms-behavior behavior Sets or retrieves the location of the Dynamic HTML (DHTML) behavior. pixelBottom Sets or retrieves the bottom position of the object. pixelHeight Sets or retrieves the height of the object. pixelLeft Sets or retrieves the left position of the object. pixelRight Sets or retrieves the right position of the object. pixelTop Sets or retrieves the top position of the object. pixelWidth Sets or retrieves the width of the object. posBottom Sets or retrieves the bottom position of the object in the units specified by the bottom attribute. posHeight Sets or retrieves the height of the object in the units specified by the height attribute. posLeft Sets or retrieves the left position of the object in the units specified by the left attribute. posRight Sets or retrieves the right position of the object in the units specified by the right attribute. posTop Sets or retrieves the top position of the object in the units specified by the top attribute. posWidth Sets or retrieves the width of the object in the units specified by the width attribute. -ms-text-autospace textAutospace Sets or retrieves the autospacing and narrow space width adjustment of text. -ms-text-underline-position textUnderlinePosition Sets or retrieves the position of the underline decoration that is set through the textDecoration property of the object.

Remarks

  Internet Explorer 8 and later. The behavior of the href and the rel attributes depend on the current document compatibility mode.

The link element can be used only within the head tag.

This element is not rendered.

This element does not require a closing tag.

Example

This example uses the link element to apply an external style sheet, called styles.css, to the page.

<link rel=stylesheet href="styles.css" type="text/css">

Standards Information

This object is defined in HTML 3.2  and is defined in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 .