The HTML Reference
<Q>--Displaying Short Quotations
<RT>--Creating Ruby Text <S> And <STRIKE>--Striking Text Out<SAMP>--Displaying Sample Program Output
<SELECT>--Creating A Select Control
<SERVER>--Running Server-Side JavaScript Scripts
<SPACER>--Controlling Horizontal And Vertical Spacing
<SPAN>--Formatting Inline Text
<STRONG>--Strongly Emphasizing Text
<STYLE>--Using Embedded Style Sheets
<TABLE>--Creating A Table<TBODY>--Create A Table Body When Grouping Rows
<TEXTAREA>--Creating Text Areas
<TFOOT>--Create A Table Foot When Grouping Rows
<THEAD>--Create A Table Head When Grouping Rows
<TITLE>--Giving A Web Page A Title
<TT>--Creating "Teletype" Text
--Displaying Short QuotationsPurpose: Displays a short, inline quotation.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [4, IE4, IE5]
Attributes:
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [4, IE4, IE5]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [4, IE4, IE5]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE4, IE5]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (as might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [4, IE4, IE5]
Purpose: Creates a ruby, which is a content pair of text and annotation or caption.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [IE5]
Attributes:
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [IE5]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [IE5]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE5]
* NAME--Sets the name of the element. Set to alphanumeric text. [IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [IE5]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (which might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [IE5]
Purpose: Creates ruby text (the annotation/caption).
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Optional
Supported: [IE5]
Attributes:
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [IE5]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [IE5]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE5]
* NAME--Sets the name of the element. Set to alphanumeric text. [IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [IE5]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (which might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [IE5]
Purpose: Displays text in strikethrough style. Deprecated in HTML 4.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [3, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [3, 4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [3, 4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (as might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
Purpose: Styles text as sample program output; usually rendered in a monospace font.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [2, 3, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [3, 4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [3, 4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (as might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
Purpose: Embeds a script, such as those written in JavaScript, JScript, or VBScript in a Web page. This element is usually included in a page's head, except when the script writes to the Web page, in which case it should go into the page's body.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [3.2, 4, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* CHARSET--Specifies the character encoding of the script contents. Set to a Request for Comments (RFC) 2045 language character set string (the default is ISO-8859-1). [4]
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [IE4, IE5]
* DEFER--Indicates to the browser that the script is not going to generate any document content (which means the browser can continue parsing and drawing the page). Stand-alone attribute. [4, IE4, IE5]
* EVENT--Gives the event the script is written for. Set to an event name. [IE4, IE5]
* FOR--Indicates which element is bound to the script. Set to an HTML element or element ID. [IE4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Sets the scripting language. This attribute is required if the SRC attribute is not set and is optional otherwise. Set to the name of a scripting language, such as JavaScript or VBScript. [4, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS3, NS4]
* SRC--Gives an external source for the script code. Set to a URL. [4, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS3, NS4]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (which might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [IE4, IE5]
* TYPE--Indicates the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) type of the scripting code. Set to an alphanumeric MIME type. [4, IE4, IE5]
Purpose: Displays a select control, much like a drop-down list box.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [2, 3, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* ACCESSKEY--Keyboard shortcut key; a single character is used as the value of this attribute. The user can type a platform-dependent key (such as Alt) with the ACCESSKEY character to trigger the active field. Set to an alphanumeric character. [4, IE4, IE5]
* ALIGN--Gives the alignment of the contents of the SELECT. Set to LEFT, RIGHT, TOP, MIDDLE, or BOTTOM. [IE4, IE5]
* CLASS--Class of the element. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* DISABLED--Specifies that the element is disabled when first displayed. Stand-alone attribute. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* DATAFLD--Name of the column of the data source object that supplies the bound data. Set to alphanumeric characters. [IE4, IE5]
* DATASRC--Gives the URL or ID of the data source object supplying data bound to this element. W3C says this should be a URL, Internet Explorer says it should be a data source ID. [IE4, IE5]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* DISABLED-- Specifies that the element is disabled when first displayed. Stand-alone attribute. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* MULTIPLE--Indicates that more than one option can be selected at a time. Stand-alone attribute. [2, 3, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* NAME--Gives the element a name. Set to alphanumeric characters. [2, 3, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* SIZE--Gives the number of items visible in the list. Set to a positive integer. [2, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE4, IE5]
* TABINDEX--Sets the tab index of the element, which locates it in the tab order of the form, allowing the user to press the Tab key and navigate from element to element. Set to positive or negative integers. [4, IE4, IE5]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (which might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [2, 3, 4, IE4, IE5]
Events:
* Internet Explorer--onbeforecut, onbeforeeditfocus, onbeforefocusenter, onbeforefocusleave, onbeforepaste, onblur, onchange, onclick, oncontextmenu, oncontrolselect, oncut, ondblclick, ondragenter, ondragleave, ondragover, ondrop, onfocus, onfocusenter, onfocusleave, onhelp, onkeydown, onkeypress, onkeyup, onlosecapture, onmousedown, onmouseenter, onmouseleave, onmousemove, onmouseout, onmouseover, onmouseup, onpaste, onpropertychange, onreadystatechange, onresize, onresizeend, onresizestart, onscroll, onselectstart
* Netscape Navigator--onblur, onchange, onclick, onfocus
Purpose: Embeds server-side scripts in a Web page. You use this element instead of <SCRIPT> for server-side scripts.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: Not applicable
Attributes:
* None
Purpose: Renders text in a smaller font than the current default.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [2, 3, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [3, 4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [3, 4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (as might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
Purpose: Gives you more control over horizontal and vertical spacing.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Omitted. This element does not contain any content.
Supported: [NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* ALIGN--Sets alignment only when the TYPE attribute is set to BLOCK. Possible values are: LEFT, RIGHT, TOP, TEXTTOP, MIDDLE, ABSMIDDLE, BASELINE, BOTTOM, and ABSBOTTOM. [NS3, NS4]
* HEIGHT--Sets the height in pixels of the spacer when the TYPE attribute is set to BLOCK. [NS3, NS4]
* SIZE--Sets the width or height in pixels of the spacer when the TYPE attribute is set to HORIZONTAL or VERTICAL. [NS3, NS4]
* TYPE--Sets the type of the spacer. Required attribute. May be HORIZONTAL, VERTICAL, or BLOCK. [NS3, NS4]
* WIDTH--Sets the width in pixels of the spacer when the TYPE attribute is set to BLOCK. [NS3, NS4]
Purpose: Selects inline text to let you apply styles.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [4, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS4]
Attributes:
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (which might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [4, IE4, IE5]
Purpose: Emphasizes text strongly; usually rendered in bold.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [2, 3, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [3, 4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [3, 4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (as might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
Purpose: Creates styles.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [3, 3.2, 4, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS4]
Attributes:
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4]
* DISABLED--Specifies that the styles should not be applied initially. Stand-alone attribute. [IE4, IE5]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [4]
* MEDIA--Sets the media for style sheet definitions (multiple destinations are given delimited by commas). Possible values: SCREEN (the default), PRINT, PROJECTION, BRAILLE, SPEECH, ALL. [4, IE4, IE5]
* TITLE--Allows the browser to build a menu of alternative style sheets. Set to alphanumeric values. [4]
* TYPE-Indicates the MIME type of the STYLE element content. Set to text/css or text/javascript. Required. [4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
Purpose: Styles text as a subscript.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [3, 3.2, 4, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [3, 4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [3, 4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (as might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
Purpose: Styles text as a superscript.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [2, 3, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [3, 4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [3, 4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (as might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
Purpose: Creates a table; encloses elements like <CAPTION>, <TR>, <TH>, <TD>, <COLSPAN>, <COL>, <THEAD>, <TBODY>, and <TFOOT>.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* ALIGN--Specifies the horizontal alignment of the table in the browser window. Set to LEFT, CENTER, or RIGHT. Deprecated. [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* BACKGROUND--Specifies the URL of a background image to be used as a background for the table. All cell contents are displayed over this image. Note that if the image is smaller than the table, it is tiled to fit the table. Set to a URL. [IE3, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* BGCOLOR--Sets the background color of the table cells. You can override this attribute at the row and cell level. Set to a Red, Green, Blue (RGB) triplet color value or a predefined color name. Deprecated. [4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS3, NS4]
* BORDER--Sets the border width; set to a pixel width. If you set this attribute to 0, no border appears. Although this attribute used to be a stand-alone attribute in HTML 2, as of HTML 3.2, you should assign a number to it.
* BORDERCOLOR--Sets the external border color for the entire table. Set to an RGB triplet color value or a predefined color name. [IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5]
* CELLPADDING--Sets the spacing between cell walls and cell contents. Set to a pixel size. [3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* CELLSPACING--Gives the distance between cells (and therefore the width of the struts between cells). Set to pixel values. [3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* COLS--Specifies the number of columns in the table. A Complex Table Model attribute. Set to a positive integer. [IE3, IE4, IE5, NS3, NS4]
* DATAPAGESIZE--Sets the number of records displayed in a data bound repeated table. Set to a positive number. [IE4, IE5]
* DATASRC--Gives the URL or ID of the data source object supplying data bound to this element. W3C says this should be a URL, Internet Explorer says it should be a data source ID. [IE4, IE5]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* FRAME--Specifies the outer border display of the table. A Complex Table Model attribute. Using this attribute coupled with the RULES attribute yields much greater border display control than the older Simple Table Model. Possible values: VOID (no borders), ABOVE (border on top side only), BELOW (border on bottom side only), HSIDES (horizontal borders only), VSIDES (vertical borders only), LHS (border on left side only), RHS (border on right side only), BOX (border on all four sides), BORDER (the default, the same as BOX). [4, IE3, IE4, IE5]
* HEIGHT--Gives the height of the whole table, in pixels. [IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* HSPACE--Sets the horizontal padding for the whole table, in pixels. [NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* RULES--Sets the interior struts in a table. A Complex Table Model attribute. Set to: NONE (no interior struts are displayed), GROUPS (horizontal struts displayed between table groups created with the THEAD, TBODY, TFOOT and COLGROUP tags), ROWS (horizontal struts are displayed between all table rows), COLS (vertical struts are displayed between all table columns), and ALL (struts displayed between all table cells). [4, IE4, IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE3, IE4, IE5]
* SUMMARY--Sets accessibility information for nonvisual browsers. Set to a text string providing a summary of the table. [4]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (which might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* VSPACE--Sets the vertical padding for the whole table, in pixels. [NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* WIDTH--Sets the width of the table; set to a pixel value or a percentage of the display area (add a percent sign (%) to such values). [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Purpose: Creates a table body when grouping rows. You can use multiple table bodies, each of which can be separated visually when you use the FRAMES and RULES attribute of the <TABLE> element.
Start Tag/End Tag: Optional/Optional
Supported: [4, IE3, IE4, IE5]
Attributes:
* ALIGN--Specifies alignment of text in the group. Set to LEFT, CENTER, JUSTIFY, CHAR, or RIGHT. [4, IE4, IE5]
* BGCOLOR--Sets the background color for the group. Set to an RGB triplet color value or predefined color. [IE4, IE5]
* CHAR--Specifies a character to align text on. Set to an alphanumeric character. [4]
* CHAROFF--Sets the alignment offset to the first character to align on, as set with CHAR. [4]
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [4, IE4, IE5]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [4, IE4, IE5]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE4, IE5]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (which might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [4, IE4, IE5]
* VALIGN--Sets the vertical alignment of the text. Set to TOP, MIDDLE, BOTTOM, or BASELINE. [4, IE4, IE5]
Purpose: Specifies the data for a table cell. Used inside the <TR> element.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Optional
Supported: [3, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* ABBR--Specifies an abbreviated name for a header cell (the default abbreviation is the actual cell content). Set to alphanumeric characters. [4]
* ALIGN--Sets the horizontal alignment of content in the table cell. Set to LEFT, CENTER, or RIGHT. [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* AXIS--Specifies a name for a cell and will usually only be applied to table heading cells, allowing the table to be mapped to a tree hierarchy. Set to alphanumeric characters. [3, 4]
* BACKGROUND--Specifies the background image for the table cell. All cell contents are displayed over this image. If the image is smaller than the table cell, the image will be tiled. Set to an image's URL. [IE3, IE4, IE5]
* BGCOLOR--Sets the background color of the table cells. You can override this attribute at the row and cell level. Set to an RGB triplet color value or a predefined color name. Deprecated. [4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS3, NS4]
* BORDERCOLOR--Sets the external border color for the cell. Set to an RGB triplet color value or a predefined color name. [IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5]
* CHAR--Specifies a character to align text on. Set to an alphanumeric character. [4]
* CHAROFF--Sets the alignment offset to the first character to align on, as set with CHAR. [4]
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* COLSPAN--Indicates how many cell columns of the table this cell should span. Set to a positive integer (the default is 1). [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* HEADERS--Gives the list of header cells that supply header information for the cell. Set to a space separated list of table cell IDs. [4]
* HEIGHT--Sets the height of the cell (in general, also sets the height of the whole row). Set to pixel values. Deprecated. [3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* NOWRAP--Specifies that data in the cell should not be wrapped by the browser, meaning the table cell will be made long enough to fit the contents without line breaks. Deprecated. [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* ROWSPAN--Indicates how many rows of the table this cell should span. Set to a positive integer (the default is 1). [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* SCOPE--Specifies a set of data cells for which the header cell provides header information. Set to: ROW (cell provides header information for the rest of the row that contains it) or COL (cell provides header information for the rest of the column), ROWGROUP (cell provides header information for the rest of the row group that contains it), or COLGROUP (cell provides header information for the rest of the column group that contains it). [4]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE4, IE5]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (which might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* VALIGN--Sets the vertical alignment of the data in this cell. Set to TOP, MIDDLE, BOTTOM, or BASELINE. [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* WIDTH--Specifies the width of the cell. Set to a pixel width or a percentage of the display area (include a percent sign (%) after percentages). Deprecated. [3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Purpose: Creates a text area, much like a two-dimensional text field.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [2, 3, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* ACCESSKEY--Keyboard shortcut key; a single character is used as the value of this attribute. The user can type a platform-dependent key (such as Alt) with the ACCESSKEY character to trigger the active field. Set to an alphanumeric character. [4, IE4, IE5]
* COLS--Specifies the number of columns visible in the control. Set to a positive integer. Required. [2, 3, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* CLASS--Class of the element. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* DATAFLD--Name of the column of the data source object that supplies the bound data. Set to alphanumeric characters. [IE4, IE5]
* DATASRC--Gives the URL or ID of the data source object supplying data bound to this element. W3C says this should be a URL, Internet Explorer says it should be a data source ID. [IE4, IE5]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* DISABLED--Specifies that the element is disabled when first displayed. Stand-alone attribute. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* NAME--Gives the element a name. Set to alphanumeric characters. [2, 3, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* READONLY--Indicates that the content of the text field may not be modified. Stand-alone attribute. [4, IE4, IE5]
* ROWS--Specifies the number of rows in the control. Set to positive integers. Required. [2, 3, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE4, IE5]
* TABINDEX--Sets the tab index of the element, which locates it in the tab order of the form, allowing the user to press the Tab key and navigate from element to element. Set to positive or negative integers. [4, IE4, IE5]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (which might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [2, 3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* WRAP--Determines the word wrap behavior for the control. Set to OFF (no word wrapping, the default), SOFT (text is wrapped, but the wrapping is not transmitted back to the server as return/linefeed characters), or HARD (text is wrapped, and the wrapping is preserved when the data is submitted back to the server). [IE4, IE5, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Events:
* Internet Explorer--onafterupdate, onbeforecopy, onbeforecut, onbeforeeditfocus, onbeforefocusenter, onbeforefocusleave, onbeforepaste, onbeforeupdate, onblur, onchange, onclick, oncontextmenu, oncontrolselect, oncut, ondblclick, ondrag, ondragend, ondragenter, ondragleave, ondragover, ondragstart, ondrop, onerrorupdate, onfilterchange, onfocus, onfocusenter, onfocusleave, onhelp, onkeydown, onkeypress, onkeyup, onlosecapture, onmousedown, onmouseenter, onmouseleave, onmousemove, onmouseout, onmouseover, onmouseup, onpaste, onpropertychange, onreadystatechange, onresize, onresizeend, onresizestart, onscroll, onselect, onselectstart
* Netscape Navigator--onblur, onchange, onfocus, onselect
Purpose: Creates a table foot when grouping rows.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Optional
Supported: [4, IE3, IE4, IE5]
Attributes:
* ALIGN--Specifies alignment of text in the group. Set to LEFT, CENTER, JUSTIFY, CHAR, or RIGHT. [4, IE4, IE5]
* BGCOLOR--Sets the background color for the group. Set to an RGB triplet color value or predefined color. [IE4, IE5]
* CHAR--Specifies a character to align text on. Set to an alphanumeric character. [4]
* CHAROFF--Sets the alignment offset to the first character to align on, as set with CHAR. [4]
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* STYLE --Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE4, IE5]
* TITLE --Holds additional information (aswhich might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* VALIGN--Sets the vertical alignment of the text. Set to TOP, MIDDLE, BOTTOM, or BASELINE. [4, IE4, IE5]
Purpose: Creates a table heading; just like table data, but usually bold and centered vertically and horizontally.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Optional
Supported: [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* ABBR--Specifies an abbreviated name for a header cell (the default abbreviation is the actual cell content). Set to alphanumeric characters. [4]
* ALIGN--Sets the horizontal alignment of content in the table cell. Set to LEFT, CENTER, or RIGHT. [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* AXIS--Specifies a name for a cell and will usually only be applied to table heading cells, allowing the table to be mapped to a tree hierarchy. Set to alphanumeric characters. [3, 4]
* BACKGROUND--Specifies the background image for the table cell. All cell contents are displayed over this image. If the image is smaller than the table cell, the image will be tiled. Set to an image's URL. [IE3, IE4, IE5]
* BGCOLOR--Sets the background color of the table cells. You can override this attribute at the row and cell level. Set to an RGB triplet color value or a predefined color name. Deprecated. [4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS3, NS4]
* BORDERCOLOR--Sets the external border color for the cell. Set to an RGB triplet color value or a predefined color name. [IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5]
* CHAR--Specifies a character to align text on. Set to an alphanumeric character. [4]
* CHAROFF--Sets the alignment offset to the first character to align on, as set with CHAR. [4]
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* COLSPAN--Indicates how many cell columns of the table this cell should span. Set to a positive integer (the default is 1). [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* HEADERS--Gives the list of header cells that supply header information for the cell. Set to a space separated list of table cell IDs. [4]
* HEIGHT--Sets the height of the cell (in general, also sets the height of the whole row). Set to pixel values. Deprecated. [3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* NOWRAP--Specifies that data in the cell should not be wrapped by the browser, meaning the table cell will be made long enough to fit the contents without line breaks. Deprecated. [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* ROWSPAN--Indicates how many rows of the table this cell should span. Set to a positive integer (the default is 1). [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* SCOPE--Specifies a set of data cells for which the header cell provides header information. Set to: ROW (cell provides header information for the rest of the row that contains it) or COL (cell provides header information for the rest of the column), ROWGROUP (cell provides header information for the rest of the row group that contains it), or COLGROUP (cell provides header information for the rest of the column group that contains it). [4]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE4, IE5]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (which might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [3, 4,IE4, IE5]
* VALIGN--Sets the vertical alignment of the data in this cell. Set to TOP, MIDDLE, BOTTOM, or BASELINE. [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* WIDTH--Specifies the width of the cell. Set to a pixel width or a percentage of the display area (include a percent sign (%) after percentages). Deprecated. [3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Purpose: Creates a table head when grouping rows.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Optional
Supported: [4, IE3, IE4, IE5]
Attributes:
* ALIGN--Specifies alignment of text in the group. Set to LEFT, CENTER, JUSTIFY, CHAR, or RIGHT. [4, IE4, IE5]
* BGCOLOR--Sets the background color for the group. Set to an RGB triplet color value or predefined color. [IE4, IE5]
* CHAR--Specifies a character to align text on. Set to an alphanumeric character. [4]
* CHAROFF--Sets the alignment offset to the first character to align on, as set with CHAR. [4]
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [4, IE4, IE5]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [4, IE4, IE5]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE4, IE5]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (which might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [4, IE4, IE5]
* VALIGN--Sets the vertical alignment of the text. Set to TOP, MIDDLE, BOTTOM, or BASELINE. [4, IE4, IE5]
Purpose: Contains the title of the HTML document, which will appear in the Web browser's title bar and is used by search engines to refer to the document. Each <HEAD> element should include a <TITLE> element.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [2, 3, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [NS4]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [IE5, NS4]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4NS4]
Purpose: Creates a row in a table; encloses <TH> and <TD> elements.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Optional
Supported: [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* ALIGN--Specifies the horizontal alignment of the text in this table row. Set to LEFT, CENTER, or RIGHT. Deprecated. [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS2, NS3, NS4]
* BGCOLOR--Sets the background color of the table cells. You can override this attribute at the row and cell level. Set to an RGB triplet color value or a predefined color name. Deprecated. [4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS3, NS4]
* BORDERCOLOR--Sets the external border color for the row. Set to an RGB triplet color value or a predefined color name. [IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5]
* CHAR--Specifies a character to align text on. Set to an alphanumeric character. [4]
* CHAROFF--Sets the alignment offset to the first character to align on, as set with CHAR. [4]
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE3, IE4, IE5]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (which might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* VALIGN--Sets the vertical alignment of the data in this row. Set to TOP, MIDDLE, BOTTOM, or BASELINE. [3, 3.2, 4, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Purpose: Displays text in a monospace "teletype" font.
Start Tag/End Tag: Required/Required
Supported: [2, 3, 3.2, 4, IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4]
Attributes:
* CLASS--Class of the element (used for rendering). [3, 4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* DIR--Gives the direction of directionally neutral text (text that doesn't have inherent direction in which you should read it). Possible values: LTR: left-to-right text or table and RTL: right-to-left text or table. [4, IE5]
* ID--Unique alphanumeric identifier for the tag, which you can use to refer to it. [3, 4, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* LANG--Base language used for the tag. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
* LANGUAGE--Scripting language used for the tag. [IE4, IE5]
* STYLE--Inline style indicating how to render the element. [4, IE3, IE4, IE5, NS4]
* TITLE--Holds additional information (as might be displayed in tool tips) for the element. [3, 4, IE4, IE5]
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