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I have some confusion between <link> and <a>.
I know that in order to add CSS to an HTML document we use the <link> tag, for example:
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/spinner/styles.css?ln=css" /> But, I can't understand why we do not use an anchor <a> tag (as it contains the same necessary attributes), something like:
<a type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/spinner/styles.css?ln=css" /> Are these two tags interchangeable? Also, if this is possible, then how do we choose one over the other and why?
Update:
I got that confusion, because I saw in The Complete Reference HTML & CSS book regarding the rel attribute of the <a> Tag, that:
rel: For anchors containing the
hrefattribute, this attribute specifies the relationship of the target object to the link object.
So I thought that it could do the same function as the <link> tag.
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These are two different things. The anchor element is used to link to another page or to a certain part of the page if you use its ID. And The link tag defines a link between a document and an external resource. The link tag is used to link to external style sheets.
a covers all the bases. a:link is used only if the link in un- visited , un- hover ed, and in- active . So, use a for things like font-family (if you want links to come up in a different font), then use link for the standard formatting, and visited , hover and active for 'special effects'.
<a> is the html element used to display an hypertext reference link (clickable anchor) in <body> part (content) of the page, while <link> is used in <head> part (document meta informations) to link an external ressource file to the document... Wow, awesome community. Thanks everyone.
Attributes are not the same as the tag they are in.
<link /> is an empty element, i.e. it can not have anything inside of it. All it does is specify a relationship with another document. Additionally, the <link> tag is only used in the <head> section.
<a></a> on the other hand, is not an empty element and specifies an object to be created on the page - like a clickable link or image - which takes the user to some other location. This tag is only used in the <body> section.
So, even though the tags can have the same attributes, that does not mean they do the same thing.
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