Tag Attributes

A tag attribute is information contained within a tag. For example the previous pages have discussed attribues of the <span> tag. For example <span style="color:red"> gives the style attribute the value "color:red". The values should always be enclosed in quotations marks. Usually HTML will work if you skip the quote marks, but you may get into trouble later on.

Officially, there should be no spaces on either side of the = sign, although, again, most browsers are forgiving.

Only the first tag of a pair of tags contains attributes. Most tags have several potential attributes, but you don't have to use them. If you don't use an attribute, you get its default value. You can list more than one attribute within the tag (as above).