The HTML4 tags

Useful web

These are the tags of HTML4 as defined by accepted standards from the W3 Consortium and in use by the common user agents on the web today. They are designed with the idea to communicate meaning in mind, rather than appearance. A (deprecated) tag has already been identified as a candidate for future cleanups of the standard. In the end, there can be only one.

The tags

• !: a comment or doctype declaration
• a: an anchor
• abbr: an abbreviation
• acronym: an acronym
• address: an address element
• applet: an applet (deprecated)
• area: an area inside an image map
• b: bold text
• base: a base URL for all the links in a page
• basefont: a base font (deprecated)
• bdo: the direction of text display
• big: big text
• blockquote: a long quotation
• body: the body element
• br: a single line break
• button: a push button
• caption: a table caption
• center: centered text (deprecated)
• cite: a citation
• code: computer code text
• col: attributes for table columns
• colgroup: groups of table columns
• dd: a definition description
• del: deleted text
• dir: a directory list (deprecated)
• dfn: a definition term
• div: a section in a document
• dl: a definition list
• dt: a definition term
• em: emphasized text
• fieldset: a fieldset
• font: the text size, color and font (deprecated)
• form: a form
• frame: a sub window (a frame)
• frameset: a set of frames
• h1: header of greatest importance
• h2: header of greater importance
• h3: header of great importance
• h4: header of some importance
• h5: header of little importance
• h6: header of least importance
• head: information about the document
• hr: a horizontal rule
• html: an html document
• i: italic text
• iframe: an inline frame

• img: an image
• input: an input field
• ins: inserted text
• isindex: a text input element (deprecated)
• kbd: keyboard text
• label: a label for a form control
• legend: a title in a fieldset
• li: a list item
• link: a resource reference
• map: an image map
• menu: a menu list (deprecated)
• meta: meta information
• noframes: a noframe section
• noscript: a noscript section
• object: an embedded object
• ol: an ordered list
• optgroup: an option group
• option: an option in a drop-down list
• p: a paragraph
• param: a parameter for an object
• pre: preformatted text
• q: a short quotation
• s: strikethrough text (deprecated)
• samp: sample computer code
• script: a script
• select: a selectable list
• small: small text
• span: a section in a document
• strike: strikethrough text (deprecated)
• strong: strong text
• style: a style definition
• sub: subscripted text
• sup: superscripted text
• table: a table
• tbody: a table body
• td: a table cell
• textarea: a text area
• tfoot: a table footer
• th: a table header
• thead: a table header
• title: the document title
• tr: a table row
• tt: teletype text
• u: underlined text (deprecated)
• ul: an unordered list
• var: a variable

Reference

• www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html