HTML a charset Attribute

Example

Use of the charset attribute in a link:

<a charset="UTF-8" href="http://www.1000sourcecodes.com">Visit 1000sourcecodes.com!</a>

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Definition and Usage

The charset attribute specifies the character encoding of the target URL.
The default character-set for modern browsers is ISO-8859-1.

Syntax

<a charset="character_set">

Syntax Example

<a charset="ISO-8859-1">

Attribute Values

Value

Description

character_set

The character encoding of the target URL.Common values: UTF-8 - Character encoding for Unicode ISO-8859-1 - Character encoding for the Latin alphabet In theory, any character encoding can be used, but no browser understands all of them. The more widely a character encoding is used, the better the chance that a browser will understand it. To view all available character encodings, go to our Character sets reference.