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rel

rel is short for "relationship" and an HTML 4.01 attribute on the a and link elements. The 'rel' attribute is used for several popular elemental microformats such as rel-nofollow, rel-license, rel-tag, and XFN. Popularity is noted as of 2005-12 per the Google study on markup use, in particular the use of link relationships, the <a> tag, and related page headers (which noted that "XFN [is] the most popular HTML metadata profile").

For more on the rel attribute and its use in microformats, see:

Specifications and drafts:

See existing-rel-values for a more comprehensive list of rel values from HTML4, microformats, and other sources.

Articles and other tutorials written about the "rel" attribute and microformats use of:

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 == rel microformats ==
-* [[rel-acquaintance]], [[rel-contact]], [[rel-friend]], [[rel-me]] and other [[xfn]] values.
+Specifications and drafts:
+* [[XFN]]: [[rel-acquaintance]], [[rel-contact]], [[rel-friend]], [[rel-me]] and other [[xfn]] values.
 * [[rel-directory]]
 * [[rel-enclosure]]
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 * [[rel-payment]]
 * [[rel-tag]]
+See [[existing-rel-values]] for a more comprehensive list of rel values from HTML4, microformats, and other sources.
+== articles ==
+Articles and other tutorials written about the "rel" attribute and microformats use of:
+* 2008-09-09 [http://www.ablognotlimited.com/articles/getting-semantic-with-microformats-part-1-rel Getting Semantic With Microformats, Part 1: rel] by [http://www.ablognotlimited.com/ Emily P. Lewis]
 == see also ==
 {{rel-related-pages}}