Will Browar 👨🏻‍💻

Is there any specific markup or are there best practices to adding a link to an RSS feed to a website (in regards to an <a> tag in the page body, not a <link> in the head), from either an accessibility standpoint or otherwise?

Most examples I find are an <a> tag with an href to the feed URL and no other attributes.

Jan 23, 2023 at 5:04pmWeb
Show threadRyan McCueJan 23, 2023
@wbrowar `rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"`, matching <link> when it's in <head> (<a> can have the same attributes)
Show threadWill Browar 👨🏻‍💻Jan 23, 2023
@rmccue thanks, Ryan! I hadn’t seen anybody doing that but this is what I was looking to find out.
Show threadRyan McCueJan 23, 2023
@wbrowar note: there are definitely some autodiscovery tools that’ll pick this up, but for broadest compatibility, make sure you have that <link> tag :)
Show threadSörenJan 23, 2023

@wbrowar @ramsey https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/rel says alternate is valid for <a> tags

So, <a href="…" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"> should do

HTML attribute: rel - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN

The rel attribute defines the relationship between a linked resource and the current document. Valid on <link>, <a>, <area>, and <form>, the supported values depend on the element on which the attribute is found.

MDN Web Docs
Show threadRyan McCueJan 23, 2023

@chucker @wbrowar @ramsey Yeah, the Link header, <link> and <a> in theory all support the same stuff; in practice, it’s most useful for autodiscovery, and most autodiscovery tools/libs will only use Link and <link>

No cost to adding it to the <a> though!