HTML 4.0 Elements

The following is an organizational list of all HTML 4.0 elements. An alphabetical list is also available.

Top-level Elements

• HTML - HTML document
  • HEAD - Document head
  • BODY - Document body
  • FRAMESET - Frameset

Head Elements

• BASE - Document base URI
• ISINDEX - Input prompt
• LINK - Document relationship
• META - Metadata
• SCRIPT - Client-side script
• STYLE - Embedded style sheet
• TITLE - Document title

Generic Block-level Elements

• ADDRESS - Address
• BLOCKQUOTE - Block quotation
• CENTER - Centered block
• DEL - Deleted text
• DIV - Generic block-level container
• H1 - Level-one heading
• H2 - Level-two heading
• H3 - Level-three heading
• H4 - Level-four heading
• H5 - Level-five heading
• H6 - Level-six heading
• HR - Horizontal rule
• INS - Inserted text
• ISINDEX - Input prompt
• NOSCRIPT - Alternate script content
• P - Paragraph
• PRE - Preformatted text

Lists

• DIR - Directory list
• DL - Definition list
  • DT - Definition term
  • DD - Definition description
• LI - List item
• MENU - Menu list
• OL - Ordered list
• UL - Unordered list

Tables

• TABLE - Table
  • CAPTION - Table caption
  • COLGROUP - Table column group
    • COL - Table column
  • THEAD - Table head
  • TFOOT - Table foot
  • TBODY - Table body
  • TR - Table row
    • TD - Table data cell
    • TH - Table header cell

Forms

• FORM - Interactive form
  • BUTTON - Button
  • FIELDSET - Form control group
    • LEGEND - Fieldset caption
  • INPUT - Form input
  • LABEL - Form field label
  • SELECT - Option selector
    • OPTGROUP - Option group
      • OPTION - Menu option
  • TEXTAREA - Multi-line text input

Special Inline Elements

• A - Anchor
• APPLET - Java applet
• BASEFONT - Base font change
• BDO - BiDi override
• BR - Line break
• FONT - Font change
• IFRAME - Inline frame
• IMG - Inline image
• MAP - Image map
  • AREA - Image map region
• OBJECT - Object
• PARAM - Object parameter
• Q - Short quotation
• SCRIPT - Client-side script
• SPAN - Generic inline container
• SUB - Subscript
• SUP - Superscript

Phrase Elements

• ABBR - Abbreviation
• ACRONYM - Acronym
• CITE - Citation
• CODE - Computer code
• DEL - Deleted text
• DFN - Defined term
• EM - Emphasis
• INS - Inserted text
• KBD - Text to be input
• SAMP - Sample output
• STRONG - Strong emphasis
• VAR - Variable

Font Style Elements

• B - Bold text
• BIG - Large text
• I - Italic text
• S - Strike-through text
• SMALL - Small text
• STRIKE - Strike-through text
• TT - Teletype text
• U - Underlined text

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