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Normal HTML anchors are of this form:

<a href="http://www.chaco.com/">Chaco's home</a>

They are usually displayed underlined or in a special color, to indicate that they are links to other documents. Some browsers display the URL (the http://www.chaco.com/ part) when the user's cursor moves over the anchor on the screen, but displaying raw URLs isn't of much use to naive users, so the xch_hint field can be used to give users more information about what will happen if they select the anchor their cursor is over.

Examples

When the user's cursor moves over this anchor, they might see "Go to Chaco's home page" in their client software's status bar:

<a href="http://www.chaco.com/"

xch_hint="Go to Chaco's home page">Chaco's home</a>

Also see

<a> (anchor)

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