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

Copyright © 1998 by Liam Quinn. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/).