prev and next typically have no effect on browser navigation controls.
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link element and navigation toolsHTML
The objective of this technique is to describe how the link element can
provide metadata about the position of an HTML page within a set of Web pages or can
assist in locating content with a set of Web pages. The value of the rel
attributes indicates what type of relation is being described, and the href
attribute provides a link to the document having that relation. Different link element rel values are used to create relationships:
next: Refers to the next document in a linear sequence of documents.prev: Refers to the previous document in an ordered series of documents.A Web page for Chapter 2 of an on-line book might contain the following links
within the head section.
<link rel="prev" href="Chapter01.html" title="01. Why Volunteer?"> <link rel="next" href="Chapter03.html" title="03. Who Volunteers?" />
For a Web page that is within a sequence or collection of Web pages:
link elements pertaining to navigation occur in the head section of the document.For each link element in the head section of the document which pertains to navigation, check that it contains at least:
rel attribute identifying the link typehref attribute to locate the appropriate resource