a
and area
elementsalternate
"author
"bookmark
"external
"help
"icon
"license
"nofollow
"noreferrer
"pingback
"prefetch
"search
"sidebar
"stylesheet
"tag
"Links are a conceptual construct, created by a
, area
, and link
elements, that represent a connection between two resources, one of which is the current Document
. There are two kinds of links in HTML:
These are links to resources that are to be used to augment the current document, generally automatically processed by the user agent.
These are links to other resources that are generally exposed to the user by the user agent so that the user can cause the user agent to navigate to those resources, e.g. to visit them in a browser or download them.
For link
elements with an href
attribute and a rel
attribute, links must be created for the keywords of the rel
attribute, as defined for those keywords in the link types section.
Similarly, for a
and area
elements with an href
attribute and a rel
attribute, links must be created for the keywords of the rel
attribute as defined for those keywords in the link types section. Unlike link
elements, however, a
and area
element with an href
attribute that either do not have a rel
attribute, or whose rel
attribute has no keywords that are defined as specifying hyperlinks, must also create a hyperlink. This implied hyperlink has no special meaning (it has no link type) beyond linking the element's document to the resource given by the element's href
attribute.
A hyperlink can have one or more hyperlink annotations that modify the processing semantics of that hyperlink.
a
and area
elementsThe href
attribute on a
and area
elements must have a value that is a valid URL potentially surrounded by spaces.
The href
attribute on a
and area
elements is not required; when those elements do not have href
attributes they do not create hyperlinks.
The target
attribute, if present, must be a valid browsing context name or keyword. It gives the name of the browsing context that will be used.
The rel
attribute on a
and area
elements controls what kinds of links the elements create. The attribue's value must be a set of space-separated tokens. The allowed keywords and their meanings are defined below.
The rel
attribute has no default value. If the attribute is omitted or if none of the values in the attribute are recognized by the user agent, then the document has no particular relationship with the destination resource other than there being a hyperlink between the two.
The media
attribute describes for which media the target document was designed. It is purely advisory. The value must be a valid media query. The default, if the media
attribute is omitted, is "all
".
The hreflang
attribute on a
and area
elements that create hyperlinks, if present, gives the language of the linked resource. It is purely advisory. The value must be a valid BCP 47 language tag. [BCP47]
The type
attribute, if present, gives the MIME type of the linked resource. It is purely advisory. The value must be a valid MIME type.
The following table summarizes the link types that are defined by this specification. This table is non-normative; the actual definitions for the link types are given in the next few sections.
In this section, the term referenced document refers to the resource identified by the element representing the link, and the term current document refers to the resource within which the element representing the link finds itself.
Except where otherwise specified, a keyword must not be specified more than once per rel
attribute.
The link types that contain no U+003A COLON characters (:), including all those defined in this specification, are ASCII case-insensitive values.
Thus, rel="next"
is the same as rel="NEXT"
.
Link type | Effect on... | Brief description | |
---|---|---|---|
link |
a and area |
||
alternate |
Hyperlink | Hyperlink | Gives alternate representations of the current document. |
author |
Hyperlink | Hyperlink | Gives a link to the current document's author. |
bookmark |
not allowed | Hyperlink | Gives the permalink for the nearest ancestor section. |
external |
not allowed | Hyperlink | Indicates that the referenced document is not part of the same site as the current document. |
help |
Hyperlink | Hyperlink | Provides a link to context-sensitive help. |
icon |
External Resource | not allowed | Imports an icon to represent the current document. |
license |
Hyperlink | Hyperlink | Indicates that the main content of the current document is covered by the copyright license described by the referenced document. |
next |
Hyperlink | Hyperlink | Indicates that the current document is a part of a series, and that the next document in the series is the referenced document. |
nofollow |
not allowed | Annotation | Indicates that the current document's original author or publisher does not endorse the referenced document. |
noreferrer |
not allowed | Annotation | Requires that the user agent not send an HTTP Referer (sic) header if the user follows the hyperlink. |
pingback |
External Resource | not allowed | Gives the address of the pingback server that handles pingbacks to the current document. |
prefetch |
External Resource | External Resource | Specifies that the target resource should be preemptively cached. |
prev |
Hyperlink | Hyperlink | Indicates that the current document is a part of a series, and that the previous document in the series is the referenced document. |
search |
Hyperlink | Hyperlink | Gives a link to a resource that can be used to search through the current document and its related pages. |
sidebar |
Hyperlink | Hyperlink | Specifies that the referenced document, if retrieved, is intended to be shown in the browser's sidebar (if it has one). |
stylesheet |
External Resource | not allowed | Imports a stylesheet. |
tag |
Hyperlink | Hyperlink | Gives a tag (identified by the given address) that applies to the current document. |
alternate
"The alternate
keyword may be used with link
, a
, and area
elements.
The meaning of this keyword depends on the values of the other attributes.
link
element and the rel
attribute also contains the keyword stylesheet
The alternate
keyword modifies the meaning of the stylesheet
keyword in the way described for that keyword. The alternate
keyword does not create a link of its own.
alternate
keyword is used with the type
attribute set to the value application/rss+xml
or the value application/atom+xml
The keyword creates a hyperlink referencing a syndication feed (though not necessarily syndicating exactly the same content as the current page).
The keyword creates a hyperlink referencing an alternate representation of the current document.
The nature of the referenced document is given by the media
, hreflang
, and type
attributes.
If the alternate
keyword is used with the media
attribute, it indicates that the referenced document is intended for use with the media specified.
If the alternate
keyword is used with the hreflang
attribute, and that attribute's value differs from the root element's language, it indicates that the referenced document is a translation.
If the alternate
keyword is used with the type
attribute, it indicates that the referenced document is a reformulation of the current document in the specified format.
The media
, hreflang
, and type
attributes can be combined when specified with the alternate
keyword.
For example, the following link is a French translation that uses the PDF format:
<link rel=alternate type=application/pdf hreflang=fr href=manual-fr>
This relationship is transitive — that is, if a document links to two other documents with the link type "alternate
", then, in addition to implying that those documents are alternative representations of the first document, it is also implying that those two documents are alternative representations of each other.
author
"The author
keyword may be used with link
, a
, and area
elements. This keyword creates a hyperlink.
For a
and area
elements, the author
keyword indicates that the referenced document provides further information about the author of the nearest article
element ancestor of the element defining the hyperlink, if there is one, or of the page as a whole, otherwise.
For link
elements, the author
keyword indicates that the referenced document provides further information about the author for the page as a whole.
The "referenced document" can be, and often is, a mailto:
URL giving the e-mail address of the author. [MAILTO]
bookmark
"The bookmark
keyword may be used with a
and area
elements. This keyword creates a hyperlink.
The bookmark
keyword gives a permalink for the nearest ancestor article
element of the linking element in question, or of the section the linking element is most closely associated with, if there are no ancestor article
elements.
The following snippet has three permalinks. A user agent could determine which permalink applies to which part of the spec by looking at where the permalinks are given.
... <body> <h1>Example of permalinks</h1> <div id="a"> <h2>First example</h2> <p><a href="a.html" rel="bookmark">This</a> permalink applies to only the content from the first H2 to the second H2. The DIV isn't exactly that section, but it roughly corresponds to it.</p> </div> <h2>Second example</h2> <article id="b"> <p><a href="b.html" rel="bookmark">This</a> permalink applies to the outer ARTICLE element (which could be, e.g., a blog post).</p> <article id="c"> <p><a href="c.html" rel="bookmark">This</a> permalink applies to the inner ARTICLE element (which could be, e.g., a blog comment).</p> </article> </article> </body> ...
external
"The external
keyword may be used with a
and area
elements. This keyword creates a hyperlink.
The external
keyword indicates that the link is leading to a document that is not part of the site that the current document forms a part of.
help
"The help
keyword may be used with link
, a
, and area
elements. This keyword creates a hyperlink.
For a
and area
elements, the help
keyword indicates that the referenced document provides further help information for the parent of the element defining the hyperlink, and its children.
In the following example, the form control has associated context-sensitive help. The user agent could use this information, for example, displaying the referenced document if the user presses the "Help" or "F1" key.
<p><label> Topic: <input name=topic> <a href="help/topic.html" rel="help">(Help)</a></label></p>
For link
elements, the help
keyword indicates that the referenced document provides help for the page as a whole.
icon
"The icon
keyword may be used with link
elements. This keyword creates an external resource link.
Icons could be auditory icons, visual icons, or other kinds of icons.
The sizes
attribute gives the sizes of icons for visual media.
If specified, the attribute must have a value that is an unordered set of unique space-separated tokens, which are ASCII case-insensitive. The values must all be either an ASCII case-insensitive match for the string "any
", or a value that consists of two valid non-negative integers that do not have a leading U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) character and that are separated by a single U+0078 LATIN SMALL LETTER X or U+0058 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X character.
The keywords represent icon sizes.
The any
keyword represents that the resource contains a scalable icon, e.g. as provided by an SVG image.
The keywords specified on the sizes
attribute must not represent icon sizes that are not actually available in the linked resource.
The following snippet shows the top part of an application with several icons.
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>lsForums — Inbox</title> <link rel=icon href=favicon.png sizes="16x16" type="image/png"> <link rel=icon href=windows.ico sizes="32x32 48x48" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon"> <link rel=icon href=mac.icns sizes="128x128 512x512 8192x8192 32768x32768"> <link rel=icon href=iphone.png sizes="57x57" type="image/png"> <link rel=icon href=gnome.svg sizes="any" type="image/svg+xml"> <link rel=stylesheet href=lsforums.css> <script src=lsforums.js></script> <meta name=application-name content="lsForums"> </head> <body> ...
license
"The license
keyword may be used with link
, a
, and area
elements. This keyword creates a hyperlink.
The license
keyword indicates that the referenced document provides the copyright license terms under which the main content of the current document is provided.
This specification does not specify how to distinguish between the main content of a document and content that is not deemed to be part of that main content. The distinction should be made clear to the user.
Consider a photo sharing site. A page on that site might describe and show a photograph, and the page might be marked up as follows:
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>Exampl Pictures: Kissat</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style/default"> </head> <body> <h1>Kissat</h1> <nav> <a href="../">Return to photo index</a> </nav> <figure> <img src="/pix/39627052_fd8dcd98b5.jpg"> <figcaption>Kissat</figcaption> </figure> <p>One of them has six toes!</p> <p><small><a rel="license" href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php">MIT Licensed</a></small></p> <footer> <a href="/">Home</a> | <a href="../">Photo index</a> <p><small>© copyright 2009 Exampl Pictures. All Rights Reserved.</small></p> </footer> </body> </html>
In this case the license
applies to just the photo (the main content of the document), not the whole document. In particular not the design of the page itself, which is covered by the copyright given at the bottom of the document. This could be made clearer in the styling (e.g. making the license link prominently positioned near the photograph, while having the page copyright in light small text at the foot of the page.
nofollow
"The nofollow
keyword may be used with a
and area
elements. This keyword does not create a hyperlink, but annotates any other hyperlinks created by the element (the implied hyperlink, if no other keywords create one).
The nofollow
keyword indicates that the link is not endorsed by the original author or publisher of the page, or that the link to the referenced document was included primarily because of a commercial relationship between people affiliated with the two pages.
noreferrer
"The noreferrer
keyword may be used with a
and area
elements. This keyword does not create a hyperlink, but annotates any other hyperlinks created by the element (the implied hyperlink, if no other keywords create one).
It indicates that no referrer information is to be leaked when following the link.
pingback
"The pingback
keyword may be used with link
elements. This keyword creates an external resource link.
For the semantics of the pingback
keyword, see the Pingback 1.0 specification. [PINGBACK]
prefetch
"The prefetch
keyword may be used with link
, a
, and area
elements. This keyword creates an external resource link.
The prefetch
keyword indicates that preemptively fetching and caching the specified resource is likely to be beneficial, as it is highly likely that the user will require this resource.
There is no default type for resources given by the prefetch
keyword.
search
"The search
keyword may be used with link
, a
, and area
elements. This keyword creates a hyperlink.
The search
keyword indicates that the referenced document provides an interface specifically for searching the document and its related resources.
OpenSearch description documents can be used with link
elements and the search
link type to enable user agents to autodiscover search interfaces. [OPENSEARCH]
sidebar
"The sidebar
keyword may be used with link
, a
, and area
elements. This keyword creates a hyperlink.
The sidebar
keyword indicates that the referenced document, if retrieved, is intended to be shown in a secondary browsing context (if possible), instead of in the current browsing context.
A hyperlink with the sidebar
keyword specified is a sidebar hyperlink.
stylesheet
"The stylesheet
keyword may be used with link
elements. This keyword creates an external resource link that contributes to the styling processing model.
The specified resource is a resource that describes how to present the document. Exactly how the resource is to be processed depends on the actual type of the resource.
If the alternate
keyword is also specified on the link
element, then the link is an alternative stylesheet; in this case, the title
attribute must be specified on the link
element, with a non-empty value.
The default type for resources given by the stylesheet
keyword is text/css
.
tag
"The tag
keyword may be used with link
, a
, and area
elements. This keyword creates a hyperlink.
The tag
keyword indicates that the tag that the referenced document represents applies to the current document.
Since it indicates that the tag applies to the current document, it would be inappropriate to use this keyword in the markup of a tag cloud, which lists the popular tag across a set of pages.
Some documents form part of a sequence of documents.
A sequence of documents is one where each document can have a previous sibling and a next sibling. A document with no previous sibling is the start of its sequence, a document with no next sibling is the end of its sequence.
A document may be part of multiple sequences.
next
"The next
keyword may be used with link
, a
, and area
elements. This keyword creates a hyperlink.
The next
keyword indicates that the document is part of a sequence, and that the link is leading to the document that is the next logical document in the sequence.
prev
"The prev
keyword may be used with link
, a
, and area
elements. This keyword creates a hyperlink.
The prev
keyword indicates that the document is part of a sequence, and that the link is leading to the document that is the previous logical document in the sequence.
Extensions to the predefined set of link types may be registered in the Microformats wiki existing-rel-values page. [MFREL]
Anyone is free to edit the Microformats wiki existing-rel-values page at any time to add a type. Extension types must be specified with the following information:
The actual value being defined. The value should not be confusingly similar to any other defined value (e.g. differing only in case).
If the value contains a U+003A COLON character (:), it must also be an absolute URL.
link
One of the following:
link
elements.link
element; it creates a hyperlink.link
element; it creates an external resource link.a
and area
One of the following:
a
and area
elements.a
and area
elements; it creates a hyperlink.a
and area
elements; it creates an external resource link.a
and area
elements; it annotates other hyperlinks created by the element.A short non-normative description of what the keyword's meaning is.
A link to a more detailed description of the keyword's semantics and requirements. It could be another page on the Wiki, or a link to an external page.
A list of other keyword values that have exactly the same processing requirements. Authors should not use the values defined to be synonyms, they are only intended to allow user agents to support legacy content. Anyone may remove synonyms that are not used in practice; only names that need to be processed as synonyms for compatibility with legacy content are to be registered in this way.
One of the following:
If a keyword is found to be redundant with existing values, it should be removed and listed as a synonym for the existing value.
If a keyword is registered in the "proposed" state for a period of a month or more without being used or specified, then it may be removed from the registry.
If a keyword is added with the "proposed" status and found to be redundant with existing values, it should be removed and listed as a synonym for the existing value. If a keyword is added with the "proposed" status and found to be harmful, then it should be changed to "discontinued" status.
Anyone can change the status at any time, but should only do so in accordance with the definitions above.
Types defined as extensions in the Microformats wiki existing-rel-values page with the status "proposed" or "ratified" may be used with the rel
attribute on link
, a
, and area
elements in accordance to the "Effect on..." field. [MFREL]
The main content of a page — not including headers and footers, navigation links, sidebars, advertisements, and so forth — can be marked up in a variety of ways, depending on the needs of the author.
The simplest solution is to not mark up the main content at all, and just leave it as implicit. Another way to think of this is that the body
elements marks up the main content of the page, and the bits that aren't main content are excluded through the use of more appropriate elements like aside
and nav
.
Here is a short Web page marked up along this minimalistic school of thought. The main content is highlighted. Notice how all the other content in the body
is marked up with elements to indicate that it's not part of the main content, in this case header
, nav
, and footer
.
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title> My Toys </title> </head> <body> <header> <h1>My toys</h1> </header> <nav> <p><a href="/">Home</a></p> <p><a href="/contact">Contact</a></p> </nav> <p>I really like my chained book and my telephone. I'm not such a fan of my big ball.</p> <p>Another toy I like is my mirror.</p> <footer> <p>© copyright 2010 by the boy</p> </footer> </body> </html>
If the main content is an independent unit of content that one could imagine syndicating independently, then the article
element would be appropriate to mark up the main content of the document.
The document in the previous example is here recast as a blog post:
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title> The Boy Blog: My Toys </title> </head> <body> <header> <h1>The Boy Blog</h1> </header> <nav> <p><a href="/">Home</a></p> <p><a href="/contact">Contact</a></p> </nav> <article> <header> <h1>My toys</h1> <p>Published <time pubdate datetime="2010-08-04">August 4th</time></p> </header> <p>I really like my chained book and my telephone. I'm not such a fan of my big ball.</p> <p>Another toy I like is my mirror.</p> </article> <footer> <p>© copyright 2010 by the boy</p> </footer> </body> </html>
If the main content is not an independent unit of content so much as a section of a larger work, for instance a chapter, then the section
element would be appropriate to mark up the main content of the document.
Here is the same document, case as a chapter in an online book:
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title> Chapter 2: My Toys — The Book of the Boy </title> </head> <body> <header> <h1>Chapter 2: My Toys</h1> </header> <nav> <p><a href="/">Front Page</a></p> <p><a href="/toc">Table of Contents</a></p> <p><a href="/c1">Chapter 1</a> — <a href="/c3">Chapter 3</a></p> </nav> <section> <p>I really like my chained book and my telephone. I'm not such a fan of my big ball.</p> <p>Another toy I like is my mirror.</p> </section> <footer> <p>© copyright 2010 by the boy</p> </footer> </body> </html>
If neither article
nor section
would be appropriate, but the main content still needs an explicit element, for example for styling purposes, then the div
element can be used.
This is the same as the original example, but using div
for the main content instead of leaving it implied:
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title> My Toys </title> <style> body > div { background: navy; color: yellow; } </style> </head> <body> <header> <h1>My toys</h1> </header> <nav> <p><a href="/">Home</a></p> <p><a href="/contact">Contact</a></p> </nav> <div> <p>I really like my chained book and my telephone. I'm not such a fan of my big ball.</p> <p>Another toy I like is my mirror.</p> </div> <footer> <p>© copyright 2010 by the boy</p> </footer> </body> </html>
This specification does not provide a machine-readable way of describing bread-crumb navigation menus. Authors are encouraged to just use a series of links in a paragraph. The nav
element can be used to mark the section containing these paragraphs as being navigation blocks.
In the following example, the current page can be reached via two paths.
<nav> <p> <a href="/">Main</a> > <a href="/products/">Products</a> > <a href="/products/dishwashers/">Dishwashers</a> > <a>Second hand</a> </p> <p> <a href="/">Main</a> > <a href="/second-hand/">Second hand</a> > <a>Dishwashers</a> </p> </nav>
This specification does not define any markup specifically for marking up lists of keywords that apply to a group of pages (also known as tag clouds). In general, authors are encouraged to either mark up such lists using ul
elements with explicit inline counts that are then hidden and turned into a presentational effect using a style sheet, or to use SVG.
Here, three tags are included in a short tag cloud:
<style> @media screen, print, handheld, tv { /* should be ignored by non-visual browsers */ .tag-cloud > li > span { display: none; } .tag-cloud > li { display: inline; } .tag-cloud-1 { font-size: 0.7em; } .tag-cloud-2 { font-size: 0.9em; } .tag-cloud-3 { font-size: 1.1em; } .tag-cloud-4 { font-size: 1.3em; } .tag-cloud-5 { font-size: 1.5em; } } </style> ... <ul class="tag-cloud"> <li class="tag-cloud-4"><a title="28 instances" href="/t/apple">apple</a> <span>(popular)</span> <li class="tag-cloud-2"><a title="6 instances" href="/t/kiwi">kiwi</a> <span>(rare)</span> <li class="tag-cloud-5"><a title="41 instances" href="/t/pear">pear</a> <span>(very popular)</span> </ul>
The actual frequency of each tag is given using the title
attribute. A CSS style sheet is provided to convert the markup into a cloud of differently-sized words, but for user agents that do not support CSS or are not visual, the markup contains annotations like "(popular)" or "(rare)" to categorize the various tags by frequency, thus enabling all users to benefit from the information.
The ul
element is used (rather than ol
) because the order is not particularly important: while the list is in fact ordered alphabetically, it would convey the same information if ordered by, say, the length of the tag.
The tag
rel
-keyword is not used on these a
elements because they do not represent tags that apply to the page itself; they are just part of an index listing the tags themselves.
This specification does not define a specific element for marking up conversations, meeting minutes, chat transcripts, dialogues in screenplays, instant message logs, and other situations where different players take turns in discourse.
Instead, authors are encouraged to mark up conversations using p
elements and punctuation. Authors who need to mark the speaker for styling purposes are encouraged to use span
or b
. Paragraphs with their text wrapped in the i
element can be used for marking up stage directions.
This example demonstrates this using an extract from Abbot and Costello's famous sketch, Who's on first:
<p> Costello: Look, you gotta first baseman? <p> Abbott: Certainly. <p> Costello: Who's playing first? <p> Abbott: That's right. <p> Costello becomes exasperated. <p> Costello: When you pay off the first baseman every month, who gets the money? <p> Abbott: Every dollar of it.
The following extract shows how an IM conversation log could be marked up.
<p> <time>14:22</time> <b>egof</b> I'm not that nerdy, I've only seen 30% of the star trek episodes <p> <time>14:23</time> <b>kaj</b> if you know what percentage of the star trek episodes you have seen, you are inarguably nerdy <p> <time>14:23</time> <b>egof</b> it's unarguably <p> <time>14:23</time> <i>* kaj blinks</i> <p> <time>14:24</time> <b>kaj</b> you are not helping your case
HTML does not have a dedicated mechanism for marking up footnotes. Here are the recommended alternatives.
For short inline annotations, the title
attribute should be used.
In this example, two parts of a dialogue are annotated with footnote-like content using the title
attribute.
<p> <b>Customer</b>: Hello! I wish to register a complaint. Hello. Miss? <p> <b>Shopkeeper</b>: <span title="Colloquial pronunciation of 'What do you'" >Watcha</span> mean, miss? <p> <b>Customer</b>: Uh, I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint. <p> <b>Shopkeeper</b>: Sorry, <span title="This is, of course, a lie.">we're closing for lunch</span>.
For longer annotations, the a
element should be used, pointing to an element later in the document. The convention is that the contents of the link be a number in square brackets.
In this example, a footnote in the dialogue links to a paragraph below the dialogue. The paragraph then reciprocally links back to the dialogue, allowing the user to return to the location of the footnote.
<p> Announcer: Number 16: The <i>hand</i>. <p> Interviewer: Good evening. I have with me in the studio tonight Mr Norman St John Polevaulter, who for the past few years has been contradicting people. Mr Polevaulter, why <em>do</em> you contradict people? <p> Norman: I don't. <sup><a href="#fn1" id="r1">[1]</a></sup> <p> Interviewer: You told me you did! ... <section> <p id="fn1"><a href="#r1">[1]</a> This is, naturally, a lie, but paradoxically if it were true he could not say so without contradicting the interviewer and thus making it false.</p> </section>
For side notes, longer annotations that apply to entire sections of the text rather than just specific words or sentences, the aside
element should be used.
In this example, a sidebar is given after a dialogue, giving it some context.
<p> <span class="speaker">Customer</span>: I will not buy this record, it is scratched. <p> <span class="speaker">Shopkeeper</span>: I'm sorry? <p> <span class="speaker">Customer</span>: I will not buy this record, it is scratched. <p> <span class="speaker">Shopkeeper</span>: No no no, this's'a tobacconist's. <aside> <p>In 1970, the British Empire lay in ruins, and foreign nationalists frequented the streets — many of them Hungarians (not the streets — the foreign nationals). Sadly, Alexander Yalt has been publishing incompetently-written phrase books. </aside>
For figures or tables, footnotes can be included in the relevant figcaption
or caption
element, or in surrounding prose.
In this example, a table has cells with footnotes that are given in prose. A figure
element is used to give a single legend to the combination of the table and its footnotes.
<figure> <figcaption>Table 1. Alternative activities for knights.</figcaption> <table> <tr> <th> Activity <th> Location <th> Cost <tr> <td> Dance <td> Wherever possible <td> £0<sup><a href="#fn1">1</a></sup> <tr> <td> Routines, chorus scenes<sup><a href="#fn2">2</a></sup> <td> Undisclosed <td> Undisclosed <tr> <td> Dining<sup><a href="#fn3">3</a></sup> <td> Camelot <td> Cost of ham, jam, and spam<sup><a href="#fn4">4</a></sup> </table> <p id="fn1">1. Assumed.</p> <p id="fn2">2. Footwork impeccable.</p> <p id="fn3">3. Quality described as "well".</p> <p id="fn4">4. A lot.</p> </figure>