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HTML: <a> charset attribute

Online Examples

The following examples use the charset attribute in links:

Example

<a charset="UTF-8" href="https://www.oldtoolbag.com/">Visit the basic tutorial website!</a>/a>

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Browser Compatibility

IEFirefoxOperaChromeSafari

All mainstream browsers do not support the charset attribute.

Definition and Usage

HTML5The charset attribute for <a> is not supported.
The charset attribute specifies the character set of the linked document (the document referenced in the href attribute).

Syntax

<a charset="value">

Attribute Value

Value	Description
character_set	Character set of the linked document. Common character sets include: UTF-8 - Unicode Character Encoding ISO-8859-1 - Character Encoding of the Latin Alphabet In theory, any character set can be used, but not all browsers can understand them. The more widely a character set is used, the more likely it is that browsers will understand it. To view all available character sets, please visit our Character Set Reference Manual.

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