04. HTML Attributes

HTML Attributes

• Attributes provide additional information about the element.
• Attributes are always specified in the start tag.
• Attributes come in name/value pairs like: name="value".

Defining Attribute values

Attribute values are always be enclosed within quotation marks

Ex:  name='john "shotgun" Nelson'
Ex:  <a href="http://www.w3schools.com">This is a link</a> to the w3schools web site.

Attributes names and values are not case sensitive.

HTML Attributes reference

Attribute  :   class                                    id                style                      title

Value       :   class_rule or style_rule      id_name    style_definition    tooltip_text

A specific id may only appear once in a web page, while class refers to a class elements that may appear many times in the same page