HTML Elements

What is HTML Elements?

Elements are the basic structure for HTML markup. Elements have two basic properties: attributes and content. Each attribute and each element's content has certain restrictions that must be followed for an HTML document to be considered valid. An element usually has a start tag (e.g. <element-name>) and an end tag (e.g. </element-name>). The element's attributes are contained in the start tag and content is located between the tags (e.g. <element-name attribute="value"> Content </element-name>). Some elements, such as <br>, do not have any content and have no closing tag.

Example

<span id="myId" class="myclass" style="color:blue;" 
title="a2zwebhelp">A2ZWebHelp </span>

Head elements

<title>…</title>: Define a document title. This element is required in every HTML document. Web browsers usually display the title in a window's title bar when the window is open, and in the task bar when the window is minimized.

<title> My Home Page </title>

<link>: Specifies links to other documents. To Link an external stylesheets you can write:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="path to file">

<script>…</script>: Used to add JavaScript or other scripts to the document.

<script language="javascript" >…</script>

<style>…</style>: Specifies a style for the document.

<style type="text/css">…</style>

<meta>: Can be used to specify additional metadata about a document, such as author, publication date, expiration date, page description, keywords, or other information not provided through the other header elements and attributes. Because of their generic nature, meta elements specify associative key-value pairs. Meta elements can specify HTTP headers which should be sent before the actual content when the HTML page is served from Web server to client: for example,

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

HTML Elements with category

Category	Element Name
Top-level Elements	HTML
	HEAD
	BODY
	FRAMESET
Head Elements	BASE
	ISINDEX	Removed in HTML 5
	LINK
	META
	SCRIPT
	STYLE
	TITLE
Generic Block-level Elements	ADDRESS
	BLOCKQUOTE
	CENTER	Removed in HTML 5
	DELDIV
	H1
	H2
	H3
	H4
	H5
	H6
	HR
	INS
	ISINDEX
	NOSCRIPT	* Removed in HTML 5
	P
	PRE
Lists	DIR	Removed in HTML 5
	DL
	DT
	DD
	LI
Tables	TABLE
	CAPTION
	COLGROUP
	COL
	THEAD
	TFOOT
	TBODY
	TR
	TD
	TH
Forms	FORM
	BUTTON
	FIELDSET -- LEGEND
	INPUT
	LABEL
	SELECT -- OPTGROUP -- OPTION
	TEXTAREA
Special Inline Elements	A
	APPLET	Removed in HTML 5
	BASEFONT	Removed in HTML 5
	BDO
	BR
	FONT	Removed in HTML 5
	IFRAME	Removed in HTML 5
	IMG
	MAP  -- AREA
	OBJECT
	PARAM
	Q
	SCRIPT
	SPAN
	SUB
	SUP
Phrase Elements	ABBR
	ACRONYM	Removed in HTML 5
	CITE
	CODE
	DEL
	DFN
	EM
	INS
	KBD
	SAMP
	STRONG
	VAR
Font Style Elements	B
	BIG	Removed in HTML 5
	I
	S
	SMALL
	STRIKE	Removed in HTML 5
	TT	Removed in HTML 5
	U
Frames	FRAMESET - Frameset	Removed in HTML 5
	FRAME - Frame	Removed in HTML 5
	NOFRAMES - Frames alternate content	Removed in HTML 5