[html] | |
desc=The <code>html</code> element represents the root of an HTML document. | |
meaning=Document root | |
start=optional | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[head] | |
desc=The <code>head</code> element collects the document’s metadata. | |
meaning=Document head | |
start=optional | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[title] | |
desc=The <code>title</code> element represents the document’s title or name, and should be meaningful even when read out of context. | |
meaning=Document title | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[base] | |
desc=The <code>base</code> element is for specifying a base URL against which relative links will be resolved, and the name of the default target for opening links and form submissions. | |
meaning=Document base URI | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[link] | |
desc=The <code>link</code> is for linking to other resources, such as stylesheets, favicons and syndication feeds. | |
meaning=Link to resources | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[meta] | |
desc=The <code>meta</code> element is for providing various types of metadata, such as the application-name or specifying the documents character encoding. | |
meaning=Metadata | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[style] | |
desc=The <code>style</code> element allows authors to embed stylesheets, typically CSS, within their documents. | |
meaning=Embedded stylesheet | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[script] | |
desc=The <code>script</code> element allows authors to include scripts, typically javaScript, and data blocks in their documents. | |
meaning=Linked or embedded script | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[noscript] | |
desc=The <code>noscript</code> element is used to provide alternative content for users using browsers that do not support scripting or have it disabled. | |
meaning=Alternative content for no script support | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[body] | |
desc=The <code>body</code> element represents the main content of the document. | |
meaning=Main content | |
start=optional | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[section] | |
desc=The <code>section</code> element represents a generic document or application section. A section, in this context, is a thematic grouping of content, typically with a header and possibly a footer. | |
meaning=Document section | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[nav] | |
desc=The <code>nav</code> element represents a section of a page containing primary navigation links to other pages or to parts within the page. | |
meaning=Navigation | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[article] | |
desc=The <code>article</code> element represents an independent section of a document, page, or site. This could be a forum post, a magazine or newspaper article, a blog entry, a user-submitted comment, or any other independent item of content. | |
meaning=Independent section | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[aside] | |
desc=The <code>aside</code> element represents a section of a page that consists of content that is tangentially related to the content around the <code>aside</code> element, and which could be considered separate from that content. Such sections are often represented as sidebars in printed typography. | |
meaning=Auxiliary section | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[h1] | |
desc=These elements define headers for their sections. | |
meaning=Heading level 1 | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
notes=The heading level is also affected by sectioning elements | |
[h2] | |
desc=These elements define headers for their sections. | |
meaning=Heading level 2 | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[h3] | |
desc=These elements define headers for their sections. | |
meaning=Heading level 3 | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[h4] | |
desc=These elements define headers for their sections. | |
meaning=Heading level 4 | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[h5] | |
desc=These elements define headers for their sections. | |
meaning=Heading level 5 | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[h6] | |
desc=These elements define headers for their sections. | |
meaning=Heading level 6 | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[hgroup] | |
desc=The <code>hgroup</code> element represents the heading of a section. The element is used to group a set of <code>h1</code>–<code>h6</code> elements when the heading has multiple levels, such as subheadings, alternative titles, or taglines. | |
meaning=Heading group | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[header] | |
desc=The <code>header</code> element represents the header of a section, typically containing headings and subheadings, and other metadata about the section. | |
meaning=Section header | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[footer] | |
desc=The <code>footer</code> element represents a footer of a section, typically containing information such as who wrote it, links to related documents, and copyright notices. | |
meaning=Section footer | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[address] | |
desc=The <code>address</code> element represents the contact information for the section it <a href="#applyToSection">applies</a> to. If it applies to <span>the body element</span>, then it instead applies to the document as a whole. | |
meaning=Contact information | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[p] | |
desc=The <code>p</code> element represents a <span>paragraph</span>. | |
meaning=Paragraph | |
start=required | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[hr] | |
desc=The <code>hr</code> element represents a <span>paragraph</span>-level thematic break, e.g. a scene change in a story, or a transition to another topic within a section of a reference book. | |
meaning=Separator | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[br] | |
desc=The <code>br</code> element represents a line break. | |
meaning=Line break | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[pre] | |
desc=The <code>pre</code> element represents a block of preformatted text, in which structure is represented by typographic conventions rather than by elements. | |
meaning=Preformatted text | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[dialog] | |
desc=The <code>dialog</code> element represents a conversation. | |
meaning=Conversation | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[blockquote] | |
desc=The <code>blockquote</code> element represents a section that is quoted from another source. | |
meaning=Long quotation | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[ol] | |
desc=The <code>ol</code> element represents an ordered list. | |
meaning=Ordered list | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[ul] | |
desc=The <code>ul</code> element represents an unordered list. | |
meaning=Unordered list | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[li] | |
desc=The <code>li</code> element represents a list item. | |
meaning=List item | |
start=required | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[dl] | |
desc=The <code>dl</code> element introduces an association list containing groups of terms and associated descriptions. (a description list). | |
meaning=Description list | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[dt] | |
desc=The <code>dt</code> element represents the term, or name, part of a term-description group in a description list (<code>dl</code> element), and the talker, or speaker, part of a talker-discourse pair in a conversation (<code>dialog</code> element). | |
meaning=Description term | |
start=required | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[dd] | |
desc=The <code>dd</code> element represents the description, definition, or value, part of a term-description group in a description list (<code>dl</code> element), and the discourse, or quote, part in a conversation (<code>dialog</code> element). | |
meaning=Description description | |
start=required | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[a] | |
desc=If the <code>a</code> element has an <code title="attr-hyperlink-href">href</code> attribute, then it represents a <span>hyperlink</span>. | |
meaning=Hyperlink | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[q] | |
desc=The <code>q</code> element represents a phrase quoted from another source. | |
meaning=Inline quotation | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[cite] | |
desc=The <code>cite</code> element represents the title of a work, such as an article, a book, a poem, a song, a film, or any other creative work. | |
meaning=Citation | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[em] | |
desc=The <code>em</code> element represents stress emphasis of its contents. | |
meaning=Stress emphasis | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[strong] | |
desc=The <code>strong</code> element represents strong importance for its contents. | |
meaning=Strong importance | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[small] | |
desc=The <code>small</code> element represents small print (part of a document often describing legal restrictions, such as copyrights or other disadvantages), or other side comments. | |
meaning=Small print | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[mark] | |
desc=The <code>mark</code> element represents a run of text in one document marked or highlighted for reference purposes, due to its relevance in another context. | |
meaning=Marked or highlighted text | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[dfn] | |
desc=The <code>dfn</code> element represents the defining instance of a term, where its definition is provided nearby. | |
meaning=Defining instance of a term | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[abbr] | |
desc=The <code>abbr</code> element represents an abbreviation or acronym, optionally with its expansion. | |
meaning=Abbreviation | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
html4=strict | |
[time] | |
desc=The <code>time</code> element represents a date and/or a time. | |
meaning=Date and/or time | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[progress] | |
desc=The <code>progress</code> element represents the completion progress of a task. | |
meaning=Progress of a task | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[meter] | |
desc=The <code>meter</code> element represents a scalar measurement within a known range, or a fractional value. | |
meaning=Scalar measurement | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[code] | |
desc=The <code>code</code> element represents a fragment of computer code. | |
meaning=Code fragment | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[var] | |
desc=The <code>var</code> element represents a variable, such as in a mathematical expression or programming context, or it could just be a term used as a placeholder in prose. | |
meaning=Variable | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[samp] | |
desc=The <code>samp</code> element represents (sample) output from a program or computing system. | |
meaning=Sample output | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[kbd] | |
desc=The <code>kbd</code> element represents user input (typically keyboard input, although it may also be used to represent other input, such as voice commands). | |
meaning=User input | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[sub] | |
desc=The <code>sup</code> element represents a superscript and the <code>sub</code> element represents a subscript. | |
meaning=Subscript | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[sup] | |
desc=The <code>sup</code> element represents a superscript and the <code>sub</code> element represents a subscript. | |
meaning=Superscript | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[span] | |
desc=The <code>span</code> element doesn’t mean anything on its own, but can be useful when used together with other attributes, e.g. <code title="attr-class">class</code>, <code title="attr-lang">lang</code>, or <code title="attr-dir">dir</code>. | |
meaning=Generic inline container | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[i] | |
desc=The <code>i</code> element represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, a thought, a ship name, or some other prose whose typical typographic presentation is italicized. | |
meaning=Italic text | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[b] | |
desc=The <code>b</code> element represents a span of text to be stylistically offset from the normal prose without conveying any extra importance, such as key words in a document abstract, product names in a review, or other spans of text whose typical typographic presentation is boldened. | |
meaning=Bold text | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[bdo] | |
desc=The <code>bdo</code> element allows authors to override the Unicode bidi algorithm by explicitly specifying a direction override. <a href="#refsBIDI">[BIDI]</a> | |
meaning=Bi-directional text override | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[ruby] | |
desc=The <code>ruby</code> element allows one or more spans of phrasing content to be marked with ruby annotations. Ruby annotations are short runs of text presented alongside base text, primarily used in East Asian typography as a guide for pronounciation or to include other annotations. In Japanese, this form of typography is also known as <i>furigana</i>. | |
meaning=Ruby annotation | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[rt] | |
desc=The <code>rt</code> element marks the ruby text component of a ruby annotation. | |
meaning=Ruby text | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[rp] | |
desc=The <code>rp</code> element can be used to provide parentheses around a ruby text component of a ruby annotation, to be shown by user agents that don’t support ruby annotations. | |
meaning=Ruby parenthesis | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[ins] | |
desc=The <code>ins</code> element represents an addition to the document. | |
meaning=Insertion | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[del] | |
desc=The <code>del</code> element represents a removal from the document. | |
meaning=Deletion | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[figure] | |
desc=The <code>figure</code> element represents some <span>flow content</span>, optionally with a caption, which can be moved away from the main flow of the document without affecting the document’s meaning. | |
meaning=A figure with a caption. | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[img] | |
desc=An <code>img</code> element represents an image. | |
meaning=Image | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[iframe] | |
desc=The <code>iframe</code> element introduces a new nested <span>browsing context</span>. | |
meaning=Inline frame | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=transitional | |
[embed] | |
desc=The <code>embed</code> element represents an integration point for an external (typically non-HTML) application or interactive content. | |
meaning=Embedded application | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[object] | |
desc=The <code>object</code> element can represent an external resource, which, depending on the type of the resource, will either be treated as an image, as a nested <span>browsing context</span>, or as an external resource to be processed by a <span>plugin</span>. | |
meaning=Generic embedded resource | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[param] | |
desc=The <code>param</code> element defines parameters for plugins invoked by <code>object</code> elements. | |
meaning=Plugin parameter | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[video] | |
desc=A <code>video</code> element represents a video or movie. | |
meaning=Video or movie | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[audio] | |
desc=An <code>audio</code> element represents a sound or audio stream. | |
meaning=Audio stream | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[source] | |
desc=The <code>source</code> element allows authors to specify multiple <span title="media resource">media resources</span> for <span title="media element">media elements</span>. | |
meaning=Media resource | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[canvas] | |
desc=The <code>canvas</code> element represents a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas, which can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly. | |
meaning=Bitmap canvas | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[map] | |
desc=The <code>map</code> element, in conjunction with any <code>area</code> element descendants, defines an <span>image map</span>. | |
meaning=Client-side image map | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[area] | |
desc=The <code>area</code> element represents either a hyperlink with some text and a corresponding area on an <span>image map</span>, or a dead area on an image map. | |
meaning=Image map region | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[table] | |
desc=The <code>table</code> element represents data with more than one dimension (a <span title="concept-table">table</span>). | |
meaning=Table | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[caption] | |
desc=The <code>caption</code> element represents the title of the <code>table</code> that is its parent, if it has a parent and that is a <code>table</code> element. | |
meaning=Table caption | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[colgroup] | |
desc=The <code>colgroup</code> element represents a <span title="concept-column-group">group</span> of one or more <span title="concept-column">columns</span> in the <code>table</code> that is its parent, if it has a parent and that is a <code>table</code> element. | |
meaning=Table column group | |
start=optional | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[col] | |
desc=If a <code>col</code> element has a parent and that is a <code>colgroup</code> element that itself has a parent that is a <code>table</code> element, then the <code>col</code> element represents one or more <span title="concept-column">columns</span> in the <span title="concept-column-group">column group</span> represented by that <code>colgroup</code>. | |
meaning=Table column | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[tbody] | |
desc=The <code>tbody</code> element represents a <span title="concept-row-group">block</span> of <span title="concept-row">rows</span> that consist of a body of data for the parent <code>table</code> element, if the <code>tbody</code> element has a parent and it is a <code>table</code>. | |
meaning=Table body | |
start=optional | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[thead] | |
desc=The <code>thead</code> element represents the <span title="concept-row-group">block</span> of <span title="concept-row">rows</span> that consist of the column labels (headers) for the parent <code>table</code> element, if the <code>thead</code> element has a parent and it is a <code>table</code>. | |
meaning=Table head | |
start=optional | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[tfoot] | |
desc=The <code>tfoot</code> element represents the <span title="concept-row-group">block</span> of <span title="concept-row">rows</span> that consist of the column summaries (footers) for the parent <code>table</code> element, if the <code>tfoot</code> element has a parent and it is a <code>table</code>. | |
meaning=Table footer | |
start=optional | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[tr] | |
desc=The <code>tr</code> element represents a <span title="concept-row">row</span> of <span title="concept-cell">cells</span> in a <span title="concept-table">table</span>. | |
meaning=Table row | |
start=required | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[td] | |
desc=The <code>td</code> element represents a data <span title="concept-cell">cell</span> in a table. | |
meaning=Table cell | |
start=required | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[th] | |
desc=The <code>th</code> element represents a header <span title="concept-cell">cell</span> in a table. | |
meaning=Table header cell | |
start=required | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[form] | |
desc=The <code>form</code> element represents a collection of <span title="form-associated element">form-associated elements</span>, some of which can represent editable values that can be submitted to a server for processing. | |
meaning=Form | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[fieldset] | |
desc=The <code>fieldset</code> element represents a set of form controls grouped under a common name. | |
meaning=Form control group | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[label] | |
desc=The <code>label</code> represents a caption in a user interface. The caption can be associated with a specific form control, known as the <code>label</code> element’s <dfn>labeled control</dfn>. | |
meaning=Form control label | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[input] | |
desc=The <code>input</code> element represents a typed data field, usually with a form control to allow the user to edit the data. | |
meaning=Form control | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[button] | |
desc=The <code>button</code> element represents a button. If the element is not <span title="concept-fe-disabled">disabled</span>, then the user agent should allow the user to activate the button. | |
meaning=Push button control | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[select] | |
desc=The <code>select</code> element represents a control for selecting amongst a set of options. | |
meaning=Selection control | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[datalist] | |
desc=The <code>datalist</code> element represents a set of <code>option</code> elements that represent predefined options for other controls. The contents of the element represents fallback content for legacy user agents, intermixed with <code>option</code> elements that represent the predefined options. In the rendering, the <code>datalist</code> element represents nothing and it, along with its children, should be hidden. | |
meaning=Predefined control values | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[optgroup] | |
desc=The <code>optgroup</code> element represents a group of <code>option</code> elements with a common label. | |
meaning=Option group | |
start=required | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[option] | |
desc=The <code>option</code> element represents an option in a <code>select</code> element or as part of a list of suggestions in a <code>datalist</code> element. | |
meaning=Selection choice | |
start=required | |
end=optional | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[textarea] | |
desc=The <code>textarea</code> element represents a multiline plain text edit control for the element’s <dfn title="concept-textarea-raw-value">raw value</dfn>. The contents of the control represent the control’s default value. | |
meaning=Multi-line text control | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[keygen] | |
desc=The <code>keygen</code> element represents a key pair generator control. | |
meaning=Key generator | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[output] | |
desc=The <code>output</code> element represents the result of a calculation. | |
meaning=Output control | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[details] | |
desc=The <code>details</code> element represents additional information or controls which the user can obtain on demand. | |
meaning=Additional information | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[datagrid] | |
desc=The <code><a href="#datagrid">datagrid</a></code> element <a href="#represents">represents</a> an interactive representation of tree, list, or tabular data. | |
meaning=Interactive tree, list or tabular data | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[command] | |
desc=The <code>command</code> element represents a command that the user can invoke. | |
meaning=Command that a user can invoke | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[bb] | |
desc=The <code>bb</code> element represents a user agent command that the user can invoke. | |
meaning=Browser button | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[menu] | |
desc=The <code>menu</code> element represents a list of commands. | |
meaning=Command menu | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=transitional | |
[device] | |
desc=The device element represents a device selector, to allow the user to give the page access to a device, for example a video camera. | |
meaning=Device selector | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=active | |
html4=none | |
[legend] | |
desc=The <code>legend</code> element represents a title or explanatory caption for the rest of the contents of the <code>legend</code> element’s parent element. | |
meaning=Explanatory title or caption | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
[div] | |
desc=The <code>div</code> element represents nothing at all. It can be used with the <code title="attr-class">class</code>, <code title="attr-lang">lang</code>/<code title="attr-xml-lang">xml:lang</code>, and <code title="attr-title">title</code> attributes to mark up semantics common to a group of consecutive elements. | |
meaning=Generic division | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=active | |
html4=strict | |
#Obsolete elements | |
[acronym] | |
desc=The <code>acronym</code> element represents an abbreviation or acronym, optionally with its expansion. | |
meaning=Acronym | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Use the <code>abbr</code> element | |
html4=strict | |
[applet] | |
desc=The <code>applet</code> element represents an embedded Java applet. | |
meaning=Java applet | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Use the <code>object</code> element. | |
html4=transitional | |
[basefont] | |
desc=The <code>basefont</code> element represents a base font style for the document. | |
meaning=Base font style | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=This has limited support in browsers. Use CSS instead. | |
html4=transitional | |
[bgsound] | |
desc=The <code>bgsound</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Use the <code>audio</code> element. | |
html4=none | |
[big] | |
desc=The <code>big</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Use a semantically appropriate element with CSS for style. | |
html4=strict | |
[blink] | |
desc=The <code>blink</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=CSS provides an alternative with limited browser support, but note that blinking text is annoying. | |
html4=none | |
[center] | |
desc=The <code>center</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Use a semantically appropriate element with CSS for style. | |
html4=transitional | |
[dir] | |
desc=The <code>dir</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Use the <code>ul</code> element. | |
html4=transitional | |
[font] | |
desc=The <code>font</code> element represents font styling | |
meaning=Font style | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Use a semantically appropriate element with CSS for style. | |
html4=transitional | |
[frame] | |
desc=The <code>frame</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Consider using CSS layouts or the <code>iframe</code> element. | |
html4=frameset | |
[frameset] | |
desc=The <code>frameset</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Consider using CSS layouts or the <code>iframe</code> element. | |
html4=frameset | |
[listing] | |
desc=The <code>listing</code> element represents a block of preformatted text, in which structure is represented by typographic conventions rather than by elements. | |
meaning=Preformatted text | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Use the <code>pre</code> element. | |
html4=none | |
[marquee] | |
desc=The <code>marquee</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Scripting or CSS animations can be used to simulate scrolling text. | |
html4=none | |
[nobr] | |
desc=The <code>nobr</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Use a semantically appropriate element with CSS for style. | |
html4=none | |
[noembed] | |
desc=The <code>noembed</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes= | |
html4=none | |
[noframes] | |
desc=The <code>noframes</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes= | |
html4=frameset | |
[isindex] | |
desc=The <code>isindex</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Use a form with a text <code>input</code> and submit button. | |
html4=transitional | |
[plaintext] | |
desc=The <code>plaintext</code> element represents a block of preformatted text, in which structure is represented by typographic conventions rather than by elements. | |
meaning=Preformatted text | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Use the <code>pre</code> element. | |
html4=none | |
[s] | |
desc=The <code>s</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Consider using the <code>del</code> element, if appropriate, or another semantically appropriate element with CSS for style. | |
html4=transitional | |
[spacer] | |
desc=The <code>spacer</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Use CSS layout techniques. | |
html4=none | |
[strike] | |
desc=The <code>strike</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Consider using the <code>del</code> element, if appropriate, or another semantically appropriate element with CSS for style. | |
html4=transitional | |
[tt] | |
desc=The <code>tt</code> element | |
meaning=Teletype | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Consider using the <code>code</code> element, if appropriate, or another semantically appropriate element with CSS for style. | |
html4=transitional | |
[u] | |
desc=The <code>u</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Use a semantically appropriate element with CSS for style. | |
html4=transitional | |
[wbr] | |
desc=The <code>wbr</code> element | |
meaning= | |
start=required | |
end=empty | |
status=obsolete | |
notes= | |
html4=none | |
[xmp] | |
desc=The <code>xmp</code> element represents a block of preformatted text, in which structure is represented by typographic conventions rather than by elements. | |
meaning=Preformatted text | |
start=required | |
end=required | |
status=obsolete | |
notes=Use the <code>pre</code> element. | |
html4=none | |