autofocus The autofocus attribute is used for specifying a default form widget where the insertion pointer will be placed once the page loads. There can only be one element with the autofocus attribute. disabled The disabled attribute is an empty attribute used for disabling the user from entering input into a widget. It is typically ...
Need for Character References There are times where we will want to include characters like quotes(‘ or “), angle brackets( < or >) or ampersand(&). These symbols have special meaning in HTML and cannot be included directly. They have to be included using entity character references. The general format is: A symbol can have a ...
Historical Context The World Wide Web(www) and the first version of HTML were invented by Tim Bernes Lee. Since the web became popular a committee called the W3C(World Wide Web Consortium) was founded to maintain and provide new HTML standards. Until 1999 W3C provided new standards regularly. Then the W3C began working on a new ...
Benefits of having Consistent Style As we learned in the last lesson, HTML5 is a lenient language and allows for different styles of writing code. Many people who switched over to XHTML still write web pages today in a similar style. However, this does require some extra effort from the developer. This is especially true ...
Mozilla Developers Network A list of all HTML elements. A list of all HTML attributes. A list of all inline elements. A list of all block elements. Wikipedia A list of all HTML and XML entity character references. HTML wiki article. HTML5 wiki article.