Author: Claire Broadley

Claire is seasoned technical writer, editor, and HTML enthusiast. She writes for HTML.com and runs a content agency, Red Robot Media.
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  • <table width="">

    The width attribute of <table> is not supported in HTML. Use CSS to control the appearance of tables. Claire Broadley… Read More...

  • <map> HTML Tag

    The <map> element is used in conjunction with one or more <area> elements to define hyperlinked regions of an image map.

  • <option> HTML Tag

    The <option> element is used in conjunction with the <select> element to create a drop-down menu in a web form. Each <option> element is displayed as an available option in the resulting drop-down menu.

  • <select name="">

    Naming Selection Items The name attribute of <select> means you can easily use your selection field with JavaScript. For more… Read More...

  • <table hspace="">

    hspace is not a valid attribute of <table>. Use CSS instead. Claire Broadley Claire is seasoned technical writer, editor, and… Read More...

  • <option value="">

    Defines the data sent to the server when a form option item is selected.

  • <menu> HTML Tag

    The <menu> element defines an instance of a menu. This experimental HTML feature has very limited browser support, but may soon be an effective way to add menu items to context menus and to create interactive web application menus.

  • <p clear="">

    Was used to force a paragraph to appear below sibling elements rather than next to sibling elements within a parent element.

  • <select readonly>

    <readonly> is not valid in HTML. Use the disabled attribute. Claire Broadley Claire is seasoned technical writer, editor, and HTML… Read More...

  • <table rules="">

    Was used to specify the display of internal borders between rows and colums. This attribute has been deprecated. Use CSS to style table borders instead.

  • <meta> HTML Tag

    The <meta> element is used to add machine-readable information to an HTML document. Information added with the <meta> tag is not displayed to website visitors but is provided for use by browsers and web crawlers.

  • <param> HTML Tag

    The <param> element is used to specify the parameters that apply to plugin-powered content embedded with an <object> element.

  • <table summary="">

    The summary attribute of <table> was designed to support non-visual HTML readers, such as screen readers. It is deprecated in… Read More...

  • <meta name="">

    Provides a context for the value in the contents attribute of a <meta> element.

  • <plaintext> HTML Tag

    The <plaintext> element was used to render HTML code as plain text. Since everything after the opening tag was rendered as plain text, there was no closing <plaintext> tag. This element is obsolete and should not be used. Instead, use the <code> or <pre> elements.

  • <multicol> HTML Tag

    The <multicol> element was an experimental feature, now deprecated, that was used to create a newspaper-style layout for text content. The modern CSS columns property can be used to create the same effect.

  • <pre> HTML Tag

    The <pre> element is used to identify text that should be rendered with all line breaks and spaces intact. It is often used to preserve indenting and line breaks when displaying code blocks.

  • <multicol cols="">

    The <multicol> element is deprecated, and should not be used. Claire Broadley Claire is seasoned technical writer, editor, and HTML… Read More...