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Semantic (X)HTML

Semantic (X)HTML refers to:

  1. The semantic elements and attributes of (X)HTML (as opposed to the presentational HTML elements and attributes)
  2. (X)HTML documents that are written using semantic (X)HTML.
  3. The practice of writing semantic (X)HTML
  4. plain old semantic HTML

Contributors

Semantic Elements

Based on the Index of HTML 4 Elements.

alphabetical

Elements for marking up visible text and user interactivity only.

  • a
  • abbr
  • acronym
  • address
  • area
  • base
  • bdo
  • blockquote
  • body
  • button
  • caption
  • cite
  • code
  • col
  • colgroup
  • dd
  • del
  • dfn
  • dir (deprecated)
  • div
  • dl
  • dt
  • em
  • fieldset
  • form
  • h1
  • h2
  • h3
  • h4
  • h5
  • h6
  • html
  • img
  • input
  • ins
  • isindex (deprecated)
  • kbd
  • label
  • legend
  • li
  • map
  • menu (deprecated)
  • noframes
  • noscript
  • object
  • ol
  • optgroup
  • option
  • p
  • pre
  • q
  • samp
  • select
  • span
  • strong
  • table (when used for tabular data, not layout)
  • tbody
  • td
  • textarea
  • tfoot
  • th
  • thead
  • title
  • tr
  • ul
  • var

invisible semantics

  • head
  • link
  • meta
  • param

layer hooks

  • script
  • style

semantically clustered

These lists/clusterings are incomplete.

hypertext

  • a
  • area
  • map

common prose document

  • abbr
  • acronym
  • em
  • h1
  • h2
  • h3
  • h4
  • h5
  • h6
  • p
  • strong
  • title

quotes and references

  • blockquote
  • cite
  • q

contact

  • address

infrastructure

  • html
  • body (because of 'profile' attribute)
  • base
  • del
  • ins

international

  • bdo

forms

  • form
    • fieldset
      • legend
      • label
      • button
      • input
      • isindex (deprecated)
      • select
        • optgroup
        • option
        • textarea

programming

  • code
  • kbd
  • pre
  • samp
  • var

tabular data

  • table (when used for tabular data, not layout)
    • caption
    • col
    • colgroup
    • thead
      • th
    • tbody
      • tr
        • td
    • tfoot

definitions

  • dfn
  • dl
    • dt
    • dd

text user interface

  • dir (deprecated)
  • menu (deprecated)

media

  • img
  • object

lists

  • ol
  • ul
    • li

generic

  • div
  • span

Semantic Attributes

Presentations

See POSH Presentations.

See also

References