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Tags

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Chapter 6Structural Tags

CHAPTER 6

Structural HTML Tags

This chapter looks at the subset of HTML tags that is used primarily to give the
document structure. It also discusses tags that are used for providing information
about the document and those used for controlling its appearance or function on a
global level.

Summary of Structural Tags

In this section, browser support for each tag is noted to the right of the tag name.
Browsers that do not support the tag are grayed out. Browsers that deprecate the
tag are noted with a superscript D. Tag usage is indicated below the tag name. A
more thorough listing of attributes for each tag, according to the HTML 4.0 Specifi-
cation, appears in Appendix A,HTML Tags and Elements.

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Specifies the base URL for all relative URLs in the document. Place this within the

of the document.

Attributes

href=url
Specifies the URL to be used.

target=name
Defines the default target window for all links in the document. Often used to
target frames.This attribute is not supported in MSIE 2.0