Attributes

All HTML tags allow attributes such as alignment, colour, width & height, borders, etc to be added to tags. Attributes follow the tag within the braces and are made up of a name and a value pair. There can be multiple attributes with each name/value pair separated by a space. Always place quotes around the attribute values.

See the section on Stylesheets for alternative and additional ways of defining attributes for tags.

Some common attributes are:

• height
• width
• color
• class
• id (preferred over 'name')
• text
• bgcolor
• background
• alt
• src
• href
• link
• style
• align
• border

An example would be <p align="center">Centred text</p>. There are many others so it is useful to have a HTML reference manual handy when creating and editing HTML documents.

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Updated December 1, 2007