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Attributes Tell Us More About El ements

Attributes provide additional information about the contents of an element. They appear on the opening tag of the element and are made up of two parts: a name and a value, separated by an equals sign.

• you can creating a Web Page on a PC using any text editor

• HTML pages are text documents.

• HTML uses tags (characters that sit inside angled brackets) to give the information they surround special meaning.

• Tags are often referred to as elements.

• Tags usually come in pairs. The opening tag denotes the start of a piece of content; the closing tag denotes the end.

• Opening tags can carry attributes, which tell us more about the content of that element.

• Attributes require a name and a value.

• To learn HTML you need to know what tags are available for you to use, what they do, and where they can go.

HTML5 is introducing a new set of

elements that help define the structure of

a page .

• The new HTML5 elements indicate the purpose of different parts of a web page and help to describe its structure.

• The new elements provide clearer code (compared with using multiple <div> elements).

• Older browsers that do not understand HTML5 elements need to be told which elements are block-level elements.

• To make HTML5 elements work in Internet Explorer 8 (and older versions of IE), extra JavaScript is needed, which is available free from Google.