Ping attribute on anchor tag

11 July 2022

🤓 TIL about the "ping" attribute on <a> tags, which will send a POST request to the given URLs when the anchor is clicked.

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Docs on MDN

<a href="some-url" ping="/track?param=x&value=1"> Click me </a>

<!-- Space separated for multiple trackers -->
<a href="some-url" ping="/tracker-1 /tracker-2"> Click me </a>

Crawlers may trigger the ping url as the crawl the page
Multiple pings possible by space-separating urls

Ping attribute on anchor tag

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