Link Relationships
The <LINK> element is used to define relationships with other documents or types of documents. The most common use
of the link element is to associate style sheets with the document. On InsideDHTML we share a single style sheet document
throughout the entire web-site. This makes it possible to change the font or appearance of every page on the site by editing
a single file. We associate this style sheet by including the following link element in the head of every page:
<LINK REL="stylesheet" href="/_res/css/tone.css" type="text/css">
The REL attribute defines the relationship between the current document and the referenced document. Another common relationship is to define the relationship of the current document to others.
This is most useful when you are creating a sequence of pages. This relationship can be defined by creating link relationships to documents with the REL set to "next" or "prev". These relationships
will have no effect on the rendering of your document. Instead, tools or your scripts can take advantage of this information to improve your visitor's experience. Currently Internet Explorer
only uses the external style sheet relationship. However, In the book,
Inside Dynamic HTML, Scott Isaacs covers how to write scripts that build navigation frames from these relationships. You can read the chapter containing this sample
on-lineIE4 Only
and run the sample demonstrated by the figure below:
The TYPE attribute defines the mime-type of the referenced document. When defining a relationship with
an HTML document, the TYPE should be assigned "text/html".
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