HTML 4.01 Elements By Eric Korson

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
  • h3 - 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

Frames

  • FRAMESET - Frameset
    • FRAME - Frame
  • NOFRAMES - Frames alternate content