HTML Attributes

Attributes are additional values that adjust their behavior of elements in various ways to meet the criteria the users require.

Some elements do not require attributes like heading tags <h1>, paragraph rag <p> and some others. But most of the HTML tags may have attributes as their characteristics.

Attribute Breakdown

An attribute is combination of two things:

Name: Name is the property you want to set. For example, the image <img> element carries an attribute whose name is src and alt.
Value: The value is an what you want the value of the property to be set. It always put within quotations.

Attribute names and attribute values are case-insensitive and should be in lowercase.

Basic Attributes

The basic elements of an HTML code are:

Heading: denoted using the <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6> tags.

Paragraph: denoted using the <p> tag.

Horizontal ruler: denoted using the <hr> tag.

Link: denoted using the <a> (anchor) tag.

List: denoted using the <ul> (unordered list), <ol> (ordered list) and <li> (list element) tags.

Image: denoted using the <img> tag

Divider: denoted using the <div> tag

Span: denoted using the <span> tag

Attribute Example

Below example will demonstrate the basic architecture of HTML Attributes

<!doctype html>  
<html>
 
   <head> 
      <title>HTML Attribute Example</title> 
   </head>
  
   <body> 
      <h3 align = "left">This is left aligned</p> 
      <h4 align = "center">This is center aligned</p> 
      <h5 align = "right">This is right aligned</p> 
   </body>
   
</html>