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HTML Class 3

The document explains HTML elements, including their structure with starting and closing tags, and the concept of nested elements. It also covers HTML attributes, including core attributes like id, title, class, and style, as well as internationalization attributes such as dir and lang. Examples are provided to illustrate the use of these elements and attributes in HTML code.

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HTML Class 3

The document explains HTML elements, including their structure with starting and closing tags, and the concept of nested elements. It also covers HTML attributes, including core attributes like id, title, class, and style, as well as internationalization attributes such as dir and lang. Examples are provided to illustrate the use of these elements and attributes in HTML code.

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HTML element

An HTML element is defined by a starting tag. If the element contains other content, it ends
with a closing tag, where the element name is preceded by a forward slash as shown below
with few tags:

HTML Tag vs. Element


An HTML element is defined by a starting tag. If the element contains other content, it ends
with a closing tag.
For example, <p> is starting tag of a paragraph and </p> is closing tag of the same
paragraph but <p>This is paragraph</p> is a paragraph element.

Nested HTML Elements

It is very much allowed to keep one HTML element inside another HTML element:

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Nested Elements Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is <i>italic</i> heading</h1>
<p>This is <u>underlined</u> paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>

HTML – ATTRIBUTES

An attribute is used to define the characteristics of an HTML element and is placed inside
the element's opening tag. All attributes are made up of two parts: a name and a value:
The name is the property you want to set. For example, the paragraph <p> element in the
example carries an attribute whose name is align, which you can use to indicate the
alignment of paragraph on the page.

The value is what you want the value of the property to be set and always put within
quotations. The below example shows three possible values of align attribute: left, center
and right.

Attribute names and attribute values are case-insensitive. However, the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) recommends lowercase attributes/attribute values in their HTML 4
recommendation.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Align Attribute Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p align="left">This is left aligned</p>
<p align="center">This is center aligned</p>
<p align="right">This is right aligned</p>
</body>
</html>

Core Attributes

The four core attributes that can be used on the majority of HTML elements (although not all)
are:
 Id
 Title
 Class
 Style

The Id Attribute

The id attribute of an HTML tag can be used to uniquely identify any element within an
HTML page. There are two primary reasons that you might want to use an id attribute on an
element:

If an element carries an id attribute as a unique identifier, it is possible to identify just that


element and its content.

If you have two elements of the same name within a Web page (or style sheet), you can use
the id attribute to distinguish between elements that have the same name.
We will discuss style sheet in separate tutorial. For now, let's use the id attribute to
distinguish between two paragraph elements as shown below.

Example
<p id="html">This para explains what is HTML</p>
<p id="css">This para explains what is Cascading Style Sheet</p>

The title Attribute

The title attribute gives a suggested title for the element. They syntax for the title attribute is
similar as explained for id attribute:

The behavior of this attribute will depend upon the element that carries it, although it is often
displayed as a tooltip when cursor comes over the element or while the element is loading.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>The title Attribute Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3 title="Hello HTML!">Titled Heading Tag Example</h3>
</body>
</html>

The class Attribute

The class attribute is used to associate an element with a style sheet, and specifies the
class of element. You will learn more about the use of the class attribute when you will learn
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). So for now you can avoid it.

The value of the attribute may also be a space-separated list of class names.
For example: class="className1 className2 className3"

The style Attribute

The style attribute allows you to specify Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) rules within the
element.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>The style Attribute</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style="font-family:arial; color:#FF0000;">Some text...</p>
</body>
</html>

Internationalization Attributes

There are three internationalization attributes, which are available for most (although not all)
XHTML elements.

 dir
 lang
 xml:lang

The dir Attribute

The dir attribute allows you to indicate to the browser about the direction in which the text
should flow. The dir attribute can take one of two values, as you can see in the table that
follows:

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html dir="rtl">
<head>
<title>Display Directions</title>
</head>
<body>
This is how IE 5 renders right-to-left directed text.
</body>
</html>

Op:

The lang Attribute

The lang attribute allows you to indicate the main language used in a document, but this
attribute was kept in HTML only for backwards compatibility with earlier versions of HTML.
This attribute has been replaced by the xml:lang attribute in new XHTML documents.
The values of the lang attribute are ISO-639 standard two-character language codes.

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