What does "href" stand for?
html, w3c, web-standards
Solution
It stands for Hypertext Reference
From the source written by Tim Berners-Lee himself.:
"Help" is all that is displayed, with some indication that it is an option. If the user choses (clicks a mouse on, choses by number depending on which client he has) then the client asks the server for /HEPDATA/HELP. ("A" is for "anchor", "HREF" is for "hypertext reference")
Problem
After writing html for couple of years I realized that I don't really know why the `href` attribute is named "href" . The HTML Recomendation does not shed light on the subject by saying : This attribute specifies the location of a Web resource, thus defining a link between the current element (the source anchor) and the destination anchor defined by this attribute. Also the HTML 4.01 DTD does not provide a lot of clue . href %URI; #IMPLIED -- URI for linked resource -- I could make an educated guess for the meaning , but i was hoping for something canonical .