Scott's Digital Garden

Linking & the infamous `<rel>` property

1 min read

Attributes

nofollow

Tell Web Scrapers not to index the URL specified specified in the link

noopener

Navigate to the target resource without granting access to the document that opened it.

Cases
  • noopener not specified - Window.openerbrowser property passed to the new Web Page (hypertext document)
  • rel=noopener specified - Window.openernot passed to the new Web Page and new browsing context cannot access any information about the previous page in JavaScript

Graph View