This section describes the logical tags denoting informational elements of your HTML documents.
HTML offers a number of tags intended to logically describe the content of your documents. The use of these tags is recommended over the use of the purely stylistic tags even though the output may be exactly the same. This is recommended because in the future you may be able to search documents based on their content markup. For example, sometime in the future, you may be able to use your WWW browser to search a document for all the "addresses" equal to "eric_morgan@ncsu.edu" or even the "citations" containing the words "review of."
The most used logical tags include:
- Address (
<ADDRESS>...</ADDRESS>)- This tag is intended to surround email addresses.
- Blockquote
(<BLOCKQUOTE>...</BLOCKQUOTE>)- Use the tag when you are reproducing a long quote of another document.
- Citation (
<CITE>...</CITE>)- This tag is used to enclose citations like the titles of magazines, journals and/or books.
- Code (
<CODE>...</CODE>)- Code is for "computer code"; use this tag to markup computer programs.
- Definition (
<DFN>...</DFN>)- Use this tag to delimit the definitions of terms.
- Emphasis (
<EM>...</EM>)- Use this tag when a particular idea is important.
- Sample (
<SAMP>...</SAMP>)- This tag is used for examples.
- Strong emphasis (
<STRONG>...</STRONG>)- The strong emphasis is a tag used to denote an idea even more important than emphasis.
- Variable (
<VAR>...</VAR>)- Variable is another programming convention. It is used to markup variables from computer programs.
This page was first published on September 26, 1995. Feel free to send comments.