HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint™ for designing effective Web pages

Appendix A. XHTML REFERENCE

HTML and XHTML Tag Reference

The following is a complete list of the elements supported in HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0, including suggested usage and supported attributes. Unless otherwise noted, the elements and attributes are supported by all "flavors" of both HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0.

All XHTML elements accept the following common attributes, except as noted in the text. They are always optional:

COMMON ATTRIBUTE	DESCRIPTION
class	A class selector for the element.
dir	Sets the direction of the element as either left to right or right to left.
id	A unique identifier for the element.
lang	Specifies the language of the element.
style	Applies an inline style to the element.
title	Sets a title for the element.
xml:lang	Specifies the language ...