html tag (HTML 4.01)

document root element

Topics

List of attributes
List of events

The html tag should be the parent element to all the other HTML tags, or in other words: the root element. The standard structure of an HTML page looks like this:

<html>
  <head>
    ...
  </head>
  <body>
    ...
  </body>
</html>

As you can see, the html tag is the only top level element, with the head and the body element as child elements. Each of the two can then have several kinds of tags as their child elements.

For even more information, have a look at the head and the body elements.

Attributes

Attribute	Deprecated	Description
class		space-separated list of classes
dir		direction for weak/neutral text
id		document-wide unique id
lang		language code
style		associated style info
title		advisory title
version	X	Constant

Events

Event	Description
onclick	a pointer button was clicked
ondblclick	a pointer button was double clicked
onkeydown	a key was pressed down
onkeypress	a key was pressed and released
onkeyup	a key was released
onmousedown	a pointer button was pressed down
onmousemove	a pointer was moved within
onmouseout	a pointer was moved away
onmouseover	a pointer was moved onto
onmouseup	a pointer button was released