Zing indexes some HTML elements

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title: Zing indexes some HTML elements
description: Zing indexes the contents of certain HTML elements to improve document search results. This indexing is addition to the normal indexing by word.
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# Zing indexes some HTML elements

Zing indexes the contents of certain HTML elements to improve document search results. This indexing is addition to the normal indexing by word.

|HTML element|Description|
|------------|-----------|
|Title attribute|Zing indexes the contents of the **title** attribute of any HTML element. This is separate from the **title** element, which Zing already indexes when identifying the words of the document.|
|Anchor link target|Zing indexes the target URL specified in the **href** attribute of any anchor element.|
|Alt text for an image|Zing indexes the alternative text of any image element.|

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