B.1 Core Attributes
Prior to HTML 4.0, there were few attributes that could be used
consistently for all the HTML
tags. HTML 4.0 changed this, defining a set of 16 core attributes
that can be applied to almost all the elements in both HTML 4.01 and
XHTML 1.0. For brevity, we list these core attributes in this section
and spare you the redundancies in the table that follows:
of these attributes. They are:
<applet> | <base> | <basefont> |
<bdo> | <br> | <comment> |
<embed> | <font> | <frame> |
<frameset> | <head> | <hr> |
<html> | <iframe> | <ilayer> |
<isindex> | <keygen> | <layer> |
<marquee> | <meta> | <multicol> |
<nextid> | <nobr> | <noembed> |
<param> | <script> | <server> |
<spacer> | <style> | <title> |
<wbr> |
with an asterisk (*) in the following table, and we list all of the
attributes supported by these special tags, including the common
ones. For all other tags (those without an asterisk), assume that the
common attributes listed above apply. Do note, however, that the
popular browsers do not support all of the HTML
4.0 standard attributes, common or not. Please refer to the main text
for details.