Tag/Attribute(s) | Description | Vers. |
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--Most TAGs-- | The following attributes may be used with most (X)HTML tags | |
CLASS | For identifying a set of tags in order to apply styles | |
EVENT | For triggering a script | |
ID | For identifying particular tags for JavaScript functions and styles | |
lang | For specifying the language an element is written in | |
STYLE | For adding local style sheet information | |
TITLE | For labeling elements with tool tips | |
!-- | For inserting invisible comments | |
!DOCTYPE | Required. For indicating version of (X)HTML used | |
A | For creating links and anchors | |
Accesskey | For adding a keyboard shortcut to a link | |
event | For triggering a script | |
HREF | For specifying URL of page or name of anchor that link goes to | |
NAME | For marking a specific area of page that a link might jump to | |
tabindex | For defining the order in which the Tab key takes the visitor through links and form elements | |
TARGET | For specifying a particular window or frame for a link | D |
abbr | For explaining meaning of abbreviations | |
acronym | For explaining meaning of acronyms | |
address | For formatting the e-mail address of the Web page designer | |
APPLET | For inserting applets | D |
CODE | For specifying the URL of the applet's code | D |
WIDTH, HEIGHT | For specifying width and height of an applet | D |
AREA | For specifying coordinates of image maps | |
Accesskey | For adding a keyboard shortcut to a particular region of the map | |
alt | For giving information about an area | |
COORDS | For giving coordinates of area in image map | |
HREF | For specifying destination URL of link in area in image map | |
NOHREF | For making a click in image map have no effect | |
SHAPE | For specifying shape of area in image map | |
TARGET | For specifying window or frame that link should be displayed in | D |
B | For displaying text in boldface | |
BASE | ||
HREF | For specifying the URL to be used to generate relative URLs | |
TARGET | For specifying the default target for the links on the page | D |
BASEFONT | For specifying default font specifications throughout page | D |
COLOR | For specifying the default color for text | D |
FACE | For specifying the default font for text | D |
SIZE | For specifying the default size for text | D |
BGSOUND | For inserting background sound for page | IE |
LOOP | For specifying how many times sound should play | IE |
SRC | For specifying URL of sound | IE |
BIG | For making text bigger than surrounding text | |
blink | For making text disappear and reappear | N |
BLOCKQUOTE | For setting off block of text on page | |
cite | For giving the URL of the source of the quote | |
BODY | For enclosing main section of page | |
ALINK, LINK, VLINK | For specifying color of active links, new links, and visited links | D |
BACKGROUND | For specifying a background image | D |
BGCOLOR | For specifying the background color | D |
LEFTMARGIN, topmargin |
For specifying left and top margins | IE |
TEXT | For specifying color of text | D |
BR | For creating a line break | |
CLEAR | For stopping text wrap | D |
button | For creating buttons | |
accesskey | For adding a keyboard shortcut to a button | |
disabled | To gray out a button until some other event occurs | |
event | For associating the button with a script | |
NAME | For identifying buttons (perhaps for a JavaScript function) | |
type | For using the button as a form element | |
VALUE | For specifying what kind of button to create | |
CAPTION | For creating a caption for a table | |
ALIGN | For placing caption above or below table | D |
CENTER | For centering text, images, or other elements | D |
CITE | For marking text as a citation | |
CODE | For marking text as computer code | |
COL | For joining columns in a table into a non-structural group | |
ALIGN, valign | For specifying alignment of columns in column group | |
SPAN | For specifying number of columns in column group | |
width | For specifying a column's width | |
COLGROUP | For joining columns in a table into a structural column group | |
ALIGN, valign | For specifying alignment of columns in column group | |
SPAN | For specifying number of columns in column group | |
width | For specifying the default width for the enclosed col elements |
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DD | For marking a definition in a list | |
DEL | To mark deleted text by striking it out | |
DIV | For dividing a page into logical sections | |
ALIGN | For aligning a given section to left, right, or center | D |
CLASS | For giving a name to each class of divisions | |
ID | For giving a unique name to a particular division | |
DL | For creating a definition list | |
DT | For marking a term to be defined in a list | |
EM | For emphasizing text, usually with italics | |
EMBED | For adding multimedia | N+IE* |
ALIGN | For aligning controls | N+IE* |
AUTOSTART | For making multimedia event begin automatically | N+IE* |
CONTROLS | For displaying play, pause, rewind buttons | N+IE* |
LOOP | For determining if multimedia event should play more than once | N+IE* |
SRC | For specifying URL of multimedia file | N+IE* |
WIDTH, HEIGHT | For specifying size of controls | N+IE* |
fieldset | For grouping a set of form elements together | |
FONT | For changing the size, face, and color of text | D |
COLOR | For changing text color | D |
FACE | For changing text font | D |
SIZE | For changing text size | D |
FORM | For creating fill-in forms | |
action | For giving URL of CGI script for form | |
enctype | For uploading files in the proper format | |
METHOD | For determining how form should be processed | |
frame | For creating frames | F |
BORDER | For determining thickness of frame borders | N+IE |
BORDERCOLOR | For determining color of frame borders | N+IE |
frameborder | For displaying or hiding frame borders | F |
FRAMESPACING | For adding space between frames | IE |
longdesc | For linking to a document with more information | F |
NAME | For naming frame so it can be used as target | F |
NORESIZE | For keeping users from resizing a frame | F |
marginwidth, MARGINHEIGHT |
For specifying a frame's left and right, and top and bottom margins | F |
scrolling | For displaying or hiding a frame's scrollbars | F |
SRC | For specifying initial URL to be displayed in frame | F |
target | For specifying which frame a link should be opened in | F |
title | For indicating a frame's purpose | F |
fRAMESET | For defining a frameset | F |
BORDER | For determining thickness of frame borders | N+IE |
BORDERCOLOR | For determining color of frame borders | N+IE |
COLS | For determining number and size of frames | F |
frameborder | For displaying or hiding frame borders | F |
FRAMESPACING | For adding space between frames | IE |
ROWS | For determining number and size of frames | F |
H1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 | For creating headers | |
ALIGN | For aligning headers | D |
HEAD | For creating head section of page | |
HR | For creating horizontal rules | |
ALIGN | For aligning horizontal rules | D |
NOSHADE | For displaying horizontal rules without shading | D |
SIZE | For specifying height of horizontal rule | D |
WIDTH | For specifying width of horizontal rule | D |
HTML | For identifying a text document as an HTML document | |
I | For displaying text in italics | |
IFRAME | For creating floating frames | D* |
ALIGN | For aligning floating frames | D* |
frameborder | For displaying or hiding frame borders | D* |
height | For specifying the height of an iframe | D* |
name | For specifying the name of the floating frame, to be used as a target | D* |
WIDTH, HEIGHT | For specifying size of floating frame | D* |
SCROLLING | For displaying or hiding scrollbars | D* |
SRC | For specifying the URL of the initial page | D* |
IMG | For inserting images on a page | |
ALIGN | For aligning images and for wrapping text around images | D |
ALT | For offering alternate text that is displayed if image is not | |
border | For specifying the thickness of the border, if any | D |
HSPACE, VSPACE | For specifying amount of space above and below, and to the sides of an image | D |
SRC | For specifying URL of image | |
USEMAP | For specifying the image map that should be used with the referenced image | |
WIDTH, HEIGHT | For specifying size of image so that page is loaded more quickly, or for scaling | |
INPUT | For creating form elements | |
accesskey | For adding a keyboard shortcut to a form element | |
align | For aligning form elements | D |
CHECKED | For marking a radio button or check box by default | |
disabled | For graying out form elements until some other event occurs | |
event | For triggering a script with an event like ONFOCUS, ONBLUR, etc. | |
MAXLENGTH | For determining maximum amount of characters that can be entered in form element | |
NAME | For identifying data collected by this element | |
SIZE | For specifying width of text or password box | |
SRC | For specifying URL of active image | |
READONLY | For keeping visitors from changing certain form elements | |
TABindex | For specifying the order in which the Tab key should take a visitor through the links and form elements | |
TYPE | For determining type of form element | |
VALUE | For specifying initial value of form element | |
INS | For marking inserted text with an underline | |
KBD | For marking keyboard text | |
label | For labeling form elements | |
for | For specifying which form element the label belongs to | |
LAYER | For positioning elements | N |
legend | For labeling fieldsets | |
align | For aligning legends | D |
LI | For creating a list item | |
Type | For determining which symbols should begin the list item | D |
VALUE | For determining the initial value of the first list item | D |
LINK | For linking to an external style sheet | |
href | For specifying the URL of the style sheet | |
media | For noting a style sheet's purpose | |
title | For labeling alternate style sheets | |
type | For noting a style sheet's MIME type | |
rel | For indicating that a style sheet is primary or alternate | |
MAP | For creating a client-side image map | |
NAME | For naming map so it can be referenced later | |
marquee | For creating moving text | IE |
behavior | For controlling how the text should move (scroll, slide, alternate) | IE |
direction | For controlling if the text moves from left to right or right to left | IE |
LOOP | For specifying repetitions | IE |
SCroLLAMOUNT | For specifying amount of space between each marquee repetition | IE |
SCROLLDELAY | For specifying amount of time between each marquee repetition | IE |
META | ||
content | For adding extra information about the Web page itself | |
http-equiv | For creating automatic jumps to other pages, setting the default scripting language, and declaring the character encoding | |
NAME | For identifying extra information to the Web page | |
NOBR | For keeping all the enclosed elements on one line | N+IE |
NOFRAMES | For providing alternatives to frames | F |
noscript | For providing alternatives to scripts | |
OBJECT | For embedding objects in Web pages | |
align | For aligning objects | D |
border | For creating (or hiding) a border around an object | D |
classid | For identifying the kind of object being embedded | |
codebase | For defining the base URL of the source object | |
data | For identifying the source of the multimedia file to be embedded | |
hspace, vspace | For specifying amount of space around an object | D |
name | For identifying the object | |
standby | For displaying a message as the object is loading | |
type | For noting the an object's MIME type | |
width, height | For specifying the dimensions of the object's box | |
OL | For creating ordered lists | |
TYPE | For specifying the symbols that should begin each list item | D |
START | For specifying the initial value of the first list item | D |
optgroup | For dividing a menu into submenus | |
disabled | For graying out menu options until some other event occurs | |
label | For specifying how the option should appear in the menu | |
OPTION | For creating the individual options in a form menu | |
disabled | For graying out menu options until some other event occurs | |
label | For specifying how the option should appear in the menu | |
SELECTED | For making a menu option be selected by default in a blank form | |
VALUE | For specifying the initial value of a menu option | |
P | For creating new paragraphs | |
ALIGN | For aligning paragraphs | D |
param | For setting properties of an object | |
name | For identifying the kind of property | |
value | For setting the value of the named property | |
PRE | For displaying text exactly as it appears in HTML document | |
Q | For quoting short passages of text | |
cite | For giving the URL of the source of the quote | |
S | (Same as STRIKE ) For displaying text with a line through it |
D |
SAMP | For displaying sample text--in a monospaced font | |
script | For adding "automatic" scripts to a page | |
charset | For specifying the character set an external script is written in | |
Language | For specifying the scripting language the script is written in | D |
SRC | For referencing an external script | |
TYPE | For specifying the scripting language the script is written in | |
Select | For creating menus in forms | |
disabled | For graying out menu options until some other event occurs | |
NAME | For identifying the data collected by the menu | |
MULTIPLE | For allowing users to choose more than one option in the menu | |
SIZE | For specifying the number of items initially visible in the menu | |
small | For decreasing the size of text | |
SPAN | For creating custom character styles | |
class | For naming individual custom character styles | |
ID | For identifying particular HTML elements | |
strike | (Same as S ) For displaying text with a line through it |
D |
STRONG | For emphasizing text logically, usually in boldface | |
style | For adding style sheet information to a page | |
media | For indicating a style sheet's purpose | |
type | For indicating a style sheet's MIME type | |
sub | For creating subscripts | |
sup | For creating superscripts | |
table | For creating tables | |
align | For aligning an entire table with respect to the window | D |
background | For specifying a background image for the table | N+IE |
BGCOLOR | For specifying the background color of the table | D |
border | For specifying the thickness, if any, of the border | |
bordercolor | For specifying a solid color for the border | IE |
BORdERCOLORDARK | For specifying the darker (shaded) color of the border | IE |
Bordercolorlight | For specifying the lighter (highlighted) color of the border | IE |
cellpadding | For setting the space between a cell's contents and its borders | |
cellspacing | For setting the amount of space between cells | |
frame | For displaying external borders | |
height | For specifying the height of the table | N+IE |
rules | For displaying internal borders | |
width | For specifying the size of the table | |
tbody | For identifying the body of the table | |
align, valign | For aligning the contents of the body of the table | |
TD; TH | For creating regular and header cells, respectively, in a table | |
align, valign | For aligning a cell's contents horizontally or vertically | |
BGCOLOR | For changing the background color of a cell | D |
char | For aligning the contents of a cell with respect to a character | |
colspan | For spanning a cell across more than one column | |
nowrap | For keeping a cell's contents on one line | D |
rowspan | For spanning a cell across more than one row | |
width, height | For specifying the size of the cell | D |
textarea | For creating text block entry areas in a form | |
accesskey | For adding a keyboard shortcut to a text area | |
disabled | For graying out a text block until some other event occurs | |
NAME | For identifying the data that is gathered with the text block | |
readonly | For protecting a text area's contents | |
ROWS, COLS | For specifying the number of rows and columns in the text block | |
TFOOT, THEAD | For identifying the footer and header area of a table | |
align, valign | For aligning the footer or header cells | |
TITLE | Required. For creating the title of the page in title bar area | |
TR | For creating rows in a table | |
ALIGN, VALIGN | For aligning contents of row horizontally or vertically | |
BGCOLOR | For changing color of entire row | D |
TT | For displaying text in monospaced font | |
U | For displaying text with line underneath it | D |
UL | For creating unordered lists | |
type | For specifying the markers that should precede each list item | D |
wbr | For creating discretional line breaks | N+IE |