Another abandoned server code base... this is kind of an ancestor of taskrambler.
You can not select more than 25 topics Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
 
 
 
 
 
 

1306 lines
89 KiB

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en-US-x-Hixie" ><head><title>3.2 Elements &#8212; HTML5 </title><style type="text/css">
pre { margin-left: 2em; white-space: pre-wrap; }
h2 { margin: 3em 0 1em 0; }
h3 { margin: 2.5em 0 1em 0; }
h4 { margin: 2.5em 0 0.75em 0; }
h5, h6 { margin: 2.5em 0 1em; }
h1 + h2, h1 + h2 + h2 { margin: 0.75em 0 0.75em; }
h2 + h3, h3 + h4, h4 + h5, h5 + h6 { margin-top: 0.5em; }
p { margin: 1em 0; }
hr:not(.top) { display: block; background: none; border: none; padding: 0; margin: 2em 0; height: auto; }
dl, dd { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; }
dt { margin-top: 0.75em; margin-bottom: 0.25em; clear: left; }
dt + dt { margin-top: 0; }
dd dt { margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0; }
dd p { margin-top: 0; }
dd dl + p { margin-top: 1em; }
dd table + p { margin-top: 1em; }
p + * > li, dd li { margin: 1em 0; }
dt, dfn { font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; }
dt dfn { font-style: italic; }
pre, code { font-size: inherit; font-family: monospace; font-variant: normal; }
pre strong { color: black; font: inherit; font-weight: bold; background: yellow; }
pre em { font-weight: bolder; font-style: normal; }
@media screen { code { color: orangered; } code :link, code :visited { color: inherit; } }
var sub { vertical-align: bottom; font-size: smaller; position: relative; top: 0.1em; }
table { border-collapse: collapse; border-style: hidden hidden none hidden; }
table thead, table tbody { border-bottom: solid; }
table tbody th:first-child { border-left: solid; }
table tbody th { text-align: left; }
table td, table th { border-left: solid; border-right: solid; border-bottom: solid thin; vertical-align: top; padding: 0.2em; }
blockquote { margin: 0 0 0 2em; border: 0; padding: 0; font-style: italic; }
.bad, .bad *:not(.XXX) { color: gray; border-color: gray; background: transparent; }
.matrix, .matrix td { border: none; text-align: right; }
.matrix { margin-left: 2em; }
.dice-example { border-collapse: collapse; border-style: hidden solid solid hidden; border-width: thin; margin-left: 3em; }
.dice-example caption { width: 30em; font-size: smaller; font-style: italic; padding: 0.75em 0; text-align: left; }
.dice-example td, .dice-example th { border: solid thin; width: 1.35em; height: 1.05em; text-align: center; padding: 0; }
.toc dfn, h1 dfn, h2 dfn, h3 dfn, h4 dfn, h5 dfn, h6 dfn { font: inherit; }
img.extra { float: right; }
pre.idl { border: solid thin; background: #EEEEEE; color: black; padding: 0.5em 1em; }
pre.idl :link, pre.idl :visited { color: inherit; background: transparent; }
pre.css { border: solid thin; background: #FFFFEE; color: black; padding: 0.5em 1em; }
pre.css:first-line { color: #AAAA50; }
dl.domintro { color: green; margin: 2em 0 2em 2em; padding: 0.5em 1em; border: none; background: #DDFFDD; }
hr + dl.domintro, div.impl + dl.domintro { margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; }
dl.domintro dt, dl.domintro dt * { color: black; text-decoration: none; }
dl.domintro dd { margin: 0.5em 0 1em 2em; padding: 0; }
dl.domintro dd p { margin: 0.5em 0; }
dl.switch { padding-left: 2em; }
dl.switch > dt { text-indent: -1.5em; }
dl.switch > dt:before { content: '\21AA'; padding: 0 0.5em 0 0; display: inline-block; width: 1em; text-align: right; line-height: 0.5em; }
dl.triple { padding: 0 0 0 1em; }
dl.triple dt, dl.triple dd { margin: 0; display: inline }
dl.triple dt:after { content: ':'; }
dl.triple dd:after { content: '\A'; white-space: pre; }
.diff-old { text-decoration: line-through; color: silver; background: transparent; }
.diff-chg, .diff-new { text-decoration: underline; color: green; background: transparent; }
a .diff-new { border-bottom: 1px blue solid; }
h2 { page-break-before: always; }
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { page-break-after: avoid; }
h1 + h2, hr + h2.no-toc { page-break-before: auto; }
p > span:not([title=""]):not([class="XXX"]):not([class="impl"]):not([class="note"]),
li > span:not([title=""]):not([class="XXX"]):not([class="impl"]):not([class="note"]), { border-bottom: solid #9999CC; }
div.head { margin: 0 0 1em; padding: 1em 0 0 0; }
div.head p { margin: 0; }
div.head h1 { margin: 0; }
div.head .logo { float: right; margin: 0 1em; }
div.head .logo img { border: none } /* remove border from top image */
div.head dl { margin: 1em 0; }
div.head p.copyright, div.head p.alt { font-size: x-small; font-style: oblique; margin: 0; }
body > .toc > li { margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; }
body > .toc.brief > li { margin-top: 0.35em; margin-bottom: 0.35em; }
body > .toc > li > * { margin-bottom: 0.5em; }
body > .toc > li > * > li > * { margin-bottom: 0.25em; }
.toc, .toc li { list-style: none; }
.brief { margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.1; }
.brief li { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
.brief li p { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
.category-list { margin-top: -0.75em; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.5; }
.category-list::before { content: '\21D2\A0'; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: 900; }
.category-list li { display: inline; }
.category-list li:not(:last-child)::after { content: ', '; }
.category-list li > span, .category-list li > a { text-transform: lowercase; }
.category-list li * { text-transform: none; } /* don't affect <code> nested in <a> */
.XXX { color: #E50000; background: white; border: solid red; padding: 0.5em; margin: 1em 0; }
.XXX > :first-child { margin-top: 0; }
p .XXX { line-height: 3em; }
.annotation { border: solid thin black; background: #0C479D; color: white; position: relative; margin: 8px 0 20px 0; }
.annotation:before { position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 6px -6px -6px 6px; background: #333333; z-index: -1; content: ''; }
.annotation :link, .annotation :visited { color: inherit; }
.annotation :link:hover, .annotation :visited:hover { background: transparent; }
.annotation span { border: none ! important; }
.note { color: green; background: transparent; font-family: sans-serif; }
.warning { color: red; background: transparent; }
.note, .warning { font-weight: bolder; font-style: italic; }
p.note, div.note { padding: 0.5em 2em; }
span.note { padding: 0 2em; }
.note p:first-child, .warning p:first-child { margin-top: 0; }
.note p:last-child, .warning p:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }
.warning:before { font-style: normal; }
p.note:before { content: 'Note: '; }
p.warning:before { content: '\26A0 Warning! '; }
.bookkeeping:before { display: block; content: 'Bookkeeping details'; font-weight: bolder; font-style: italic; }
.bookkeeping { font-size: 0.8em; margin: 2em 0; }
.bookkeeping p { margin: 0.5em 2em; display: list-item; list-style: square; }
.bookkeeping dt { margin: 0.5em 2em 0; }
.bookkeeping dd { margin: 0 3em 0.5em; }
h4 { position: relative; z-index: 3; }
h4 + .element, h4 + div + .element { margin-top: -2.5em; padding-top: 2em; }
.element {
background: #EEEEFF;
color: black;
margin: 0 0 1em 0.15em;
padding: 0 1em 0.25em 0.75em;
border-left: solid #9999FF 0.25em;
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
}
.element:before {
position: absolute;
z-index: 2;
top: 0;
left: -1.15em;
height: 2em;
width: 0.9em;
background: #EEEEFF;
content: ' ';
border-style: none none solid solid;
border-color: #9999FF;
border-width: 0.25em;
}
.example { display: block; color: #222222; background: #FCFCFC; border-left: double; margin-left: 2em; padding-left: 1em; }
td > .example:only-child { margin: 0 0 0 0.1em; }
ul.domTree, ul.domTree ul { padding: 0 0 0 1em; margin: 0; }
ul.domTree li { padding: 0; margin: 0; list-style: none; position: relative; }
ul.domTree li li { list-style: none; }
ul.domTree li:first-child::before { position: absolute; top: 0; height: 0.6em; left: -0.75em; width: 0.5em; border-style: none none solid solid; content: ''; border-width: 0.1em; }
ul.domTree li:not(:last-child)::after { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: -0.6em; left: -0.75em; width: 0.5em; border-style: none none solid solid; content: ''; border-width: 0.1em; }
ul.domTree span { font-style: italic; font-family: serif; }
ul.domTree .t1 code { color: purple; font-weight: bold; }
ul.domTree .t2 { font-style: normal; font-family: monospace; }
ul.domTree .t2 .name { color: black; font-weight: bold; }
ul.domTree .t2 .value { color: blue; font-weight: normal; }
ul.domTree .t3 code, .domTree .t4 code, .domTree .t5 code { color: gray; }
ul.domTree .t7 code, .domTree .t8 code { color: green; }
ul.domTree .t10 code { color: teal; }
body.dfnEnabled dfn { cursor: pointer; }
.dfnPanel {
display: inline;
position: absolute;
z-index: 10;
height: auto;
width: auto;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
font: small sans-serif, Droid Sans Fallback;
background: #DDDDDD;
color: black;
border: outset 0.2em;
}
.dfnPanel * { margin: 0; padding: 0; font: inherit; text-indent: 0; }
.dfnPanel :link, .dfnPanel :visited { color: black; }
.dfnPanel p { font-weight: bolder; }
.dfnPanel * + p { margin-top: 0.25em; }
.dfnPanel li { list-style-position: inside; }
#configUI { position: absolute; z-index: 20; top: 10em; right: 1em; width: 11em; font-size: small; }
#configUI p { margin: 0.5em 0; padding: 0.3em; background: #EEEEEE; color: black; border: inset thin; }
#configUI p label { display: block; }
#configUI #updateUI, #configUI .loginUI { text-align: center; }
#configUI input[type=button] { display: block; margin: auto; }
fieldset { margin: 1em; padding: 0.5em 1em; }
fieldset > legend + * { margin-top: 0; }
fieldset > :last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }
fieldset p { margin: 0.5em 0; }
.stability {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
left: 0; right: 0;
margin: 0 auto 0 auto !important;
z-index: 1000;
width: 50%;
background: maroon; color: yellow;
-webkit-border-radius: 1em 1em 0 0;
-moz-border-radius: 1em 1em 0 0;
border-radius: 1em 1em 0 0;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 1em #500;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 1em #500;
box-shadow: 0 0 1em red;
padding: 0.5em 1em;
text-align: center;
}
.stability strong {
display: block;
}
.stability input {
appearance: none; margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; background: transparent; color: black;
position: absolute; top: -0.5em; right: 0; font: 1.25em sans-serif; text-align: center;
}
.stability input:hover {
color: white;
text-shadow: 0 0 2px black;
}
.stability input:active {
padding: 0.3em 0.45em 0.2em 0.55em;
}
.stability :link, .stability :visited,
.stability :link:hover, .stability :visited:hover {
background: transparent;
color: white;
}
</style><link href="data:text/css,.impl%20%7B%20display:%20none;%20%7D%0Ahtml%20%7B%20border:%20solid%20yellow;%20%7D%20.domintro:before%20%7B%20display:%20none;%20%7D" id="author" rel="alternate stylesheet" title="Author documentation only"><link href="data:text/css,.impl%20%7B%20background:%20%23FFEEEE;%20%7D%20.domintro:before%20%7B%20background:%20%23FFEEEE;%20%7D" id="highlight" rel="alternate stylesheet" title="Highlight implementation
requirements"><link href="http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/TR/W3C-WD" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"><style type="text/css">
.applies thead th > * { display: block; }
.applies thead code { display: block; }
.applies tbody th { whitespace: nowrap; }
.applies td { text-align: center; }
.applies .yes { background: yellow; }
.matrix, .matrix td { border: hidden; text-align: right; }
.matrix { margin-left: 2em; }
.dice-example { border-collapse: collapse; border-style: hidden solid solid hidden; border-width: thin; margin-left: 3em; }
.dice-example caption { width: 30em; font-size: smaller; font-style: italic; padding: 0.75em 0; text-align: left; }
.dice-example td, .dice-example th { border: solid thin; width: 1.35em; height: 1.05em; text-align: center; padding: 0; }
td.eg { border-width: thin; text-align: center; }
#table-example-1 { border: solid thin; border-collapse: collapse; margin-left: 3em; }
#table-example-1 * { font-family: "Essays1743", serif; line-height: 1.01em; }
#table-example-1 caption { padding-bottom: 0.5em; }
#table-example-1 thead, #table-example-1 tbody { border: none; }
#table-example-1 th, #table-example-1 td { border: solid thin; }
#table-example-1 th { font-weight: normal; }
#table-example-1 td { border-style: none solid; vertical-align: top; }
#table-example-1 th { padding: 0.5em; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; }
#table-example-1 tbody tr:first-child td { padding-top: 0.5em; }
#table-example-1 tbody tr:last-child td { padding-bottom: 1.5em; }
#table-example-1 tbody td:first-child { padding-left: 2.5em; padding-right: 0; width: 9em; }
#table-example-1 tbody td:first-child::after { content: leader(". "); }
#table-example-1 tbody td { padding-left: 2em; padding-right: 2em; }
#table-example-1 tbody td:first-child + td { width: 10em; }
#table-example-1 tbody td:first-child + td ~ td { width: 2.5em; }
#table-example-1 tbody td:first-child + td + td + td ~ td { width: 1.25em; }
.apple-table-examples { border: none; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 1.5em 0em; width: 40em; margin-left: 3em; }
.apple-table-examples * { font-family: "Times", serif; }
.apple-table-examples td, .apple-table-examples th { border: none; white-space: nowrap; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; }
.apple-table-examples tbody th:first-child { border-left: none; width: 100%; }
.apple-table-examples thead th:first-child ~ th { font-size: smaller; font-weight: bolder; border-bottom: solid 2px; text-align: center; }
.apple-table-examples tbody th::after, .apple-table-examples tfoot th::after { content: leader(". ") }
.apple-table-examples tbody th, .apple-table-examples tfoot th { font: inherit; text-align: left; }
.apple-table-examples td { text-align: right; vertical-align: top; }
.apple-table-examples.e1 tbody tr:last-child td { border-bottom: solid 1px; }
.apple-table-examples.e1 tbody + tbody tr:last-child td { border-bottom: double 3px; }
.apple-table-examples.e2 th[scope=row] { padding-left: 1em; }
.apple-table-examples sup { line-height: 0; }
.details-example img { vertical-align: top; }
#base64-table {
white-space: nowrap;
font-size: 0.6em;
column-width: 6em;
column-count: 5;
column-gap: 1em;
-moz-column-width: 6em;
-moz-column-count: 5;
-moz-column-gap: 1em;
-webkit-column-width: 6em;
-webkit-column-count: 5;
-webkit-column-gap: 1em;
}
#base64-table thead { display: none; }
#base64-table * { border: none; }
#base64-table tbody td:first-child:after { content: ':'; }
#base64-table tbody td:last-child { text-align: right; }
#named-character-references-table {
white-space: nowrap;
font-size: 0.6em;
column-width: 30em;
column-gap: 1em;
-moz-column-width: 30em;
-moz-column-gap: 1em;
-webkit-column-width: 30em;
-webkit-column-gap: 1em;
}
#named-character-references-table > table > tbody > tr > td:first-child + td,
#named-character-references-table > table > tbody > tr > td:last-child { text-align: center; }
#named-character-references-table > table > tbody > tr > td:last-child:hover > span { position: absolute; top: auto; left: auto; margin-left: 0.5em; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 5em; border: outset; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; background: white; width: 1.25em; height: auto; text-align: center; }
#named-character-references-table > table > tbody > tr#entity-CounterClockwiseContourIntegral > td:first-child { font-size: 0.5em; }
.glyph.control { color: red; }
@font-face {
font-family: 'Essays1743';
src: url('http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/fonts/Essays1743.ttf');
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Essays1743';
font-weight: bold;
src: url('http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/fonts/Essays1743-Bold.ttf');
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Essays1743';
font-style: italic;
src: url('http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/fonts/Essays1743-Italic.ttf');
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Essays1743';
font-style: italic;
font-weight: bold;
src: url('http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/fonts/Essays1743-BoldItalic.ttf');
}
</style><style type="text/css">
.domintro:before { display: table; margin: -1em -0.5em -0.5em auto; width: auto; content: 'This box is non-normative. Implementation requirements are given below this box.'; color: black; font-style: italic; border: solid 2px; background: white; padding: 0 0.25em; }
</style><script type="text/javascript">
function getCookie(name) {
var params = location.search.substr(1).split("&");
for (var index = 0; index < params.length; index++) {
if (params[index] == name)
return "1";
var data = params[index].split("=");
if (data[0] == name)
return unescape(data[1]);
}
var cookies = document.cookie.split("; ");
for (var index = 0; index < cookies.length; index++) {
var data = cookies[index].split("=");
if (data[0] == name)
return unescape(data[1]);
}
return null;
}
</script>
<script src="link-fixup.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet"><link href="dom.html" title="3 Semantics, structure, and APIs of HTML documents" rel="prev">
<link href="spec.html#contents" title="Table of contents" rel="index">
<link href="content-models.html" title="3.2.5 Content models" rel="next">
</head><body><div class="head" id="head">
<div id="multipage-common">
<p class="stability" id="wip"><strong>This is a work in
progress!</strong> For the latest updates from the HTML WG, possibly
including important bug fixes, please look at the <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html">editor's draft</a> instead.
There may also be a more
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5">up-to-date Working Draft</a>
with changes based on resolution of Last Call issues.
<input onclick="closeWarning(this.parentNode)" type="button" value="&#9587;&#8413;"></p>
<script type="text/javascript">
function closeWarning(element) {
element.parentNode.removeChild(element);
var date = new Date();
date.setDate(date.getDate()+4);
document.cookie = 'hide-obsolescence-warning=1; expires=' + date.toGMTString();
}
if (getCookie('hide-obsolescence-warning') == '1')
setTimeout(function () { document.getElementById('wip').parentNode.removeChild(document.getElementById('wip')); }, 2000);
</script></div>
<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img alt="W3C" height="48" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home" width="72"></a></p>
<h1>HTML5</h1>
</div><div>
<a href="dom.html" class="prev">3 Semantics, structure, and APIs of HTML documents</a> &#8211;
<a href="spec.html#contents">Table of contents</a> &#8211;
<a href="content-models.html" class="next">3.2.5 Content models</a>
<ol class="toc"><li><ol><li><a href="elements.html#elements"><span class="secno">3.2 </span>Elements</a>
<ol><li><a href="elements.html#semantics-0"><span class="secno">3.2.1 </span>Semantics</a></li><li><a href="elements.html#elements-in-the-dom"><span class="secno">3.2.2 </span>Elements in the DOM</a></li><li><a href="elements.html#global-attributes"><span class="secno">3.2.3 </span>Global attributes</a>
<ol><li><a href="elements.html#the-id-attribute"><span class="secno">3.2.3.1 </span>The <code>id</code> attribute</a></li><li><a href="elements.html#the-title-attribute"><span class="secno">3.2.3.2 </span>The <code>title</code> attribute</a></li><li><a href="elements.html#the-lang-and-xml:lang-attributes"><span class="secno">3.2.3.3 </span>The <code title="attr-lang">lang</code> and <code title="attr-xml-lang">xml:lang</code> attributes</a></li><li><a href="elements.html#the-xml:base-attribute-xml-only"><span class="secno">3.2.3.4 </span>The <code>xml:base</code>
attribute (XML only)</a></li><li><a href="elements.html#the-dir-attribute"><span class="secno">3.2.3.5 </span>The <code>dir</code> attribute</a></li><li><a href="elements.html#classes"><span class="secno">3.2.3.6 </span>The <code>class</code> attribute</a></li><li><a href="elements.html#the-style-attribute"><span class="secno">3.2.3.7 </span>The <code>style</code> attribute</a></li><li><a href="elements.html#embedding-custom-non-visible-data-with-the-data-attributes"><span class="secno">3.2.3.8 </span>Embedding custom non-visible data with the <code title="attr-data-*">data-*</code> attributes</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="elements.html#element-definitions"><span class="secno">3.2.4 </span>Element definitions</a>
<ol><li><a href="elements.html#attributes"><span class="secno">3.2.4.1 </span>Attributes</a></li></ol></li></ol></li></ol></li></ol></div>
<h3 id="elements"><span class="secno">3.2 </span>Elements</h3><h4 id="semantics-0"><span class="secno">3.2.1 </span>Semantics</h4><p>Elements, attributes, and attribute values in HTML are defined
(by this specification) to have certain meanings (semantics). For
example, the <code><a href="grouping-content.html#the-ol-element">ol</a></code> element represents an ordered list, and
the <code title="attr-lang"><a href="#attr-lang">lang</a></code> attribute represents the
language of the content.</p><p>Authors must not use elements, attributes, or attribute values
for purposes other than their appropriate intended semantic
purpose. Authors must not use elements, attributes, or attribute
values that are not permitted by this specification or <a href="infrastructure.html#other-applicable-specifications">other
applicable specifications</a>.</p><div class="example">
<p>For example, the following document is non-conforming, despite
being syntactically correct:</p>
<pre class="bad">&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;
&lt;html lang="en-GB"&gt;
&lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt; Demonstration &lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; My favourite animal is the cat. &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&#8212;&lt;a href="http://example.org/~ernest/"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Ernest&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,
in an essay from 1992
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;</pre>
<p>...because the data placed in the cells is clearly not tabular
data (and the <code><a href="text-level-semantics.html#the-cite-element">cite</a></code> element mis-used). A corrected
version of this document might be:</p>
<pre>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;
&lt;html lang="en-GB"&gt;
&lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt; Demonstration &lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt; My favourite animal is the cat. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&#8212;&lt;a href="http://example.org/~ernest/"&gt;Ernest&lt;/a&gt;,
in an essay from 1992
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;</pre>
<p>This next document fragment, intended to represent the heading
of a corporate site, is similarly non-conforming because the second
line is not intended to be a heading of a subsection, but merely a
subheading or subtitle (a subordinate heading for the same
section).</p>
<pre class="bad">&lt;body&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;ABC Company&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Leading the way in widget design since 1432&lt;/h2&gt;
...</pre>
<p>The <code><a href="sections.html#the-hgroup-element">hgroup</a></code> element is intended for these kinds of
situations:</p>
<pre>&lt;body&gt;
&lt;hgroup&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;ABC Company&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Leading the way in widget design since 1432&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;/hgroup&gt;
...</pre>
<p>In the next example, there is a non-conforming attribute value
("carpet") and a non-conforming attribute ("texture"), which
is not permitted by this specification:</p>
<pre class="bad">&lt;label&gt;Carpet: &lt;input type="carpet" name="c" texture="deep pile"&gt;&lt;/label&gt;</pre>
<p>Here would be an alternative and correct way to mark this up:</p>
<pre>&lt;label&gt;Carpet: &lt;input type="text" class="carpet" name="c" data-texture="deep pile"&gt;&lt;/label&gt;</pre>
</div><p>Through scripting and using other mechanisms, the values of
attributes, text, and indeed the entire structure of the document
may change dynamically while a user agent is processing it. The
semantics of a document at an instant in time are those represented
by the state of the document at that instant in time, and the
semantics of a document can therefore change over time. User agents
<span class="impl">must</span> update their presentation of the
document as this occurs.</p><p class="example">HTML has a <code><a href="the-button-element.html#the-progress-element">progress</a></code> element that
describes a progress bar. If its "value" attribute is dynamically
updated by a script, the UA would update the rendering to show the
progress changing.</p><h4 id="elements-in-the-dom"><span class="secno">3.2.2 </span>Elements in the DOM</h4><p>The nodes representing <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a> in the DOM
<span class="impl">must</span> implement, and expose to scripts, the
interfaces listed for them in the relevant sections of this
specification. This includes <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a> in <a href="dom.html#xml-documents">XML
documents</a>, even when those documents are in another context
(e.g. inside an XSLT transform).</p><p>Elements in the DOM <a href="rendering.html#represents" title="represents">represent</a>
things; that is, they have intrinsic <em>meaning</em>, also known as
semantics.</p><p class="example">For example, an <code><a href="grouping-content.html#the-ol-element">ol</a></code> element
represents an ordered list.</p><p>The basic interface, from which all the <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements">HTML
elements</a>' interfaces inherit, <span class="impl">and which
must be used by elements that have no additional
requirements,</span> is the <code><a href="#htmlelement">HTMLElement</a></code> interface.</p><pre class="idl">interface <dfn id="htmlelement">HTMLElement</dfn> : <a href="infrastructure.html#element">Element</a> {
// <a href="dom.html#dom-tree-accessors">DOM tree accessors</a>
NodeList <a href="dom.html#dom-getelementsbyclassname" title="dom-getElementsByClassName">getElementsByClassName</a>(in DOMString classNames);
// <a href="apis-in-html-documents.html#dynamic-markup-insertion">dynamic markup insertion</a>
attribute DOMString <a href="apis-in-html-documents.html#dom-innerhtml" title="dom-innerHTML">innerHTML</a>;
attribute DOMString <a href="apis-in-html-documents.html#dom-outerhtml" title="dom-outerHTML">outerHTML</a>;
void <a href="apis-in-html-documents.html#dom-insertadjacenthtml" title="dom-insertAdjacentHTML">insertAdjacentHTML</a>(in DOMString position, in DOMString text);
// <span>metadata attributes</span>
attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-id" title="dom-id">id</a>;
attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-title" title="dom-title">title</a>;
attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-lang" title="dom-lang">lang</a>;
attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-dir" title="dom-dir">dir</a>;
attribute <span>DOMString</span> <a href="#dom-classname" title="dom-className">className</a>;
readonly attribute <a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#domtokenlist">DOMTokenList</a> <a href="#dom-classlist" title="dom-classList">classList</a>;
readonly attribute <a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#domstringmap">DOMStringMap</a> <a href="#dom-dataset" title="dom-dataset">dataset</a>;
// <a href="editing.html#editing">user interaction</a>
attribute boolean <a href="editing.html#dom-hidden" title="dom-hidden">hidden</a>;
void <a href="editing.html#dom-click" title="dom-click">click</a>();
attribute long <a href="editing.html#dom-tabindex" title="dom-tabindex">tabIndex</a>;
void <a href="editing.html#dom-focus" title="dom-focus">focus</a>();
void <a href="editing.html#dom-blur" title="dom-blur">blur</a>();
attribute DOMString <a href="editing.html#dom-accesskey" title="dom-accessKey">accessKey</a>;
readonly attribute DOMString <a href="editing.html#dom-accesskeylabel" title="dom-accessKeyLabel">accessKeyLabel</a>;
attribute boolean <a href="dnd.html#dom-draggable" title="dom-draggable">draggable</a>;
[PutForwards=<a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#dom-domsettabletokenlist-value" title="dom-DOMSettableTokenList-value">value</a>] attribute <a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#domsettabletokenlist">DOMSettableTokenList</a> <a href="dnd.html#dom-dropzone" title="dom-dropzone">dropzone</a>;
attribute DOMString <a href="editing.html#dom-contenteditable" title="dom-contentEditable">contentEditable</a>;
readonly attribute boolean <a href="editing.html#dom-iscontenteditable" title="dom-isContentEditable">isContentEditable</a>;
attribute <a href="interactive-elements.html#htmlmenuelement">HTMLMenuElement</a> <a href="interactive-elements.html#dom-contextmenu" title="dom-contextMenu">contextMenu</a>;
attribute boolean <a href="editing.html#dom-spellcheck" title="dom-spellcheck">spellcheck</a>;
// <a href="commands.html#command-api">command API</a>
readonly attribute DOMString <a href="commands.html#dom-command-ro-commandtype" title="dom-command-ro-commandType">commandType</a>;
readonly attribute DOMString <a href="commands.html#dom-command-ro-label" title="dom-command-ro-label">label</a>;
readonly attribute DOMString <a href="commands.html#dom-command-ro-icon" title="dom-command-ro-icon">icon</a>;
readonly attribute boolean <a href="commands.html#dom-command-ro-disabled" title="dom-command-ro-disabled">disabled</a>;
readonly attribute boolean <a href="commands.html#dom-command-ro-checked" title="dom-command-ro-checked">checked</a>;
// <span>styling</span>
readonly attribute <span>CSSStyleDeclaration</span> <a href="#dom-style" title="dom-style">style</a>;
// <a href="webappapis.html#event-handler-idl-attributes">event handler IDL attributes</a>
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onabort" title="handler-onabort">onabort</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onblur" title="handler-onblur">onblur</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-oncanplay" title="handler-oncanplay">oncanplay</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-oncanplaythrough" title="handler-oncanplaythrough">oncanplaythrough</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onchange" title="handler-onchange">onchange</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onclick" title="handler-onclick">onclick</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-oncontextmenu" title="handler-oncontextmenu">oncontextmenu</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-oncuechange" title="handler-oncuechange">oncuechange</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondblclick" title="handler-ondblclick">ondblclick</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondrag" title="handler-ondrag">ondrag</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondragend" title="handler-ondragend">ondragend</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondragenter" title="handler-ondragenter">ondragenter</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondragleave" title="handler-ondragleave">ondragleave</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondragover" title="handler-ondragover">ondragover</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondragstart" title="handler-ondragstart">ondragstart</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondrop" title="handler-ondrop">ondrop</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondurationchange" title="handler-ondurationchange">ondurationchange</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onemptied" title="handler-onemptied">onemptied</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onended" title="handler-onended">onended</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onerror" title="handler-onerror">onerror</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onfocus" title="handler-onfocus">onfocus</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-oninput" title="handler-oninput">oninput</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-oninvalid" title="handler-oninvalid">oninvalid</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onkeydown" title="handler-onkeydown">onkeydown</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onkeypress" title="handler-onkeypress">onkeypress</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onkeyup" title="handler-onkeyup">onkeyup</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onload" title="handler-onload">onload</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onloadeddata" title="handler-onloadeddata">onloadeddata</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onloadedmetadata" title="handler-onloadedmetadata">onloadedmetadata</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onloadstart" title="handler-onloadstart">onloadstart</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onmousedown" title="handler-onmousedown">onmousedown</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onmousemove" title="handler-onmousemove">onmousemove</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onmouseout" title="handler-onmouseout">onmouseout</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onmouseover" title="handler-onmouseover">onmouseover</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onmouseup" title="handler-onmouseup">onmouseup</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onmousewheel" title="handler-onmousewheel">onmousewheel</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onpause" title="handler-onpause">onpause</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onplay" title="handler-onplay">onplay</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onplaying" title="handler-onplaying">onplaying</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onprogress" title="handler-onprogress">onprogress</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onratechange" title="handler-onratechange">onratechange</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onreadystatechange" title="handler-onreadystatechange">onreadystatechange</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onreset" title="handler-onreset">onreset</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onscroll" title="handler-onscroll">onscroll</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onseeked" title="handler-onseeked">onseeked</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onseeking" title="handler-onseeking">onseeking</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onselect" title="handler-onselect">onselect</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onshow" title="handler-onshow">onshow</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onstalled" title="handler-onstalled">onstalled</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onsubmit" title="handler-onsubmit">onsubmit</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onsuspend" title="handler-onsuspend">onsuspend</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-ontimeupdate" title="handler-ontimeupdate">ontimeupdate</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onvolumechange" title="handler-onvolumechange">onvolumechange</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="webappapis.html#handler-onwaiting" title="handler-onwaiting">onwaiting</a>;
};
interface <dfn id="htmlunknownelement">HTMLUnknownElement</dfn> : <a href="#htmlelement">HTMLElement</a> { };</pre><p>The <code><a href="#htmlelement">HTMLElement</a></code> interface holds methods and
attributes related to a number of disparate features, and the
members of this interface are therefore described in various
different sections of this specification.</p><div class="impl">
<p>The <code><a href="#htmlunknownelement">HTMLUnknownElement</a></code> interface must be used for
<a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a> that are not defined by this
specification (or <a href="infrastructure.html#other-applicable-specifications">other applicable specifications</a>).</p>
</div><h4 id="global-attributes"><span class="secno">3.2.3 </span><dfn>Global attributes</dfn></h4><p>The following attributes are common to and may be specified on
all <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a><span class="impl"> (even those not
defined in this specification)</span>:</p><ul class="brief"><li><code title="attr-accesskey"><a href="editing.html#the-accesskey-attribute">accesskey</a></code></li>
<li><code title="attr-class"><a href="#classes">class</a></code></li>
<li><code title="attr-contenteditable"><a href="editing.html#attr-contenteditable">contenteditable</a></code></li>
<li><code title="attr-contextmenu"><a href="interactive-elements.html#attr-contextmenu">contextmenu</a></code></li>
<li><code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code></li>
<li><code title="attr-draggable"><a href="dnd.html#the-draggable-attribute">draggable</a></code></li>
<li><code title="attr-dropzone"><a href="dnd.html#the-dropzone-attribute">dropzone</a></code></li>
<li><code title="attr-hidden"><a href="editing.html#the-hidden-attribute">hidden</a></code></li>
<li><code title="attr-id"><a href="#the-id-attribute">id</a></code></li>
<li><code title="attr-lang"><a href="#attr-lang">lang</a></code></li>
<li><code title="attr-spellcheck"><a href="editing.html#attr-spellcheck">spellcheck</a></code></li>
<li><code title="attr-style"><a href="#the-style-attribute">style</a></code></li>
<li><code title="attr-tabindex"><a href="editing.html#attr-tabindex">tabindex</a></code></li>
<li><code title="attr-title"><a href="#the-title-attribute">title</a></code></li>
</ul><hr><p>The following <a href="webappapis.html#event-handler-content-attributes">event handler content attributes</a> may
be specified on any <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements" title="HTML elements">HTML
element</a>:</p><ul class="brief"><li><code title="handler-onabort"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onabort">onabort</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onblur"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onblur">onblur</a></code>*</li>
<li><code title="handler-oncanplay"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-oncanplay">oncanplay</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-oncanplaythrough"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-oncanplaythrough">oncanplaythrough</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onchange"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onchange">onchange</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onclick"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onclick">onclick</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-oncontextmenu"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-oncontextmenu">oncontextmenu</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-oncuechange"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-oncuechange">oncuechange</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-ondblclick"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondblclick">ondblclick</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-ondrag"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondrag">ondrag</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-ondragend"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondragend">ondragend</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-ondragenter"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondragenter">ondragenter</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-ondragleave"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondragleave">ondragleave</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-ondragover"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondragover">ondragover</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-ondragstart"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondragstart">ondragstart</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-ondrop"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondrop">ondrop</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-ondurationchange"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-ondurationchange">ondurationchange</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onemptied"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onemptied">onemptied</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onended"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onended">onended</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onerror"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onerror">onerror</a></code>*</li>
<li><code title="handler-onfocus"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onfocus">onfocus</a></code>*</li>
<li><code title="handler-oninput"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-oninput">oninput</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-oninvalid"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-oninvalid">oninvalid</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onkeydown"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onkeydown">onkeydown</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onkeypress"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onkeypress">onkeypress</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onkeyup"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onkeyup">onkeyup</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onload"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onload">onload</a></code>*</li>
<li><code title="handler-onloadeddata"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onloadeddata">onloadeddata</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onloadedmetadata"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onloadedmetadata">onloadedmetadata</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onloadstart"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onloadstart">onloadstart</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onmousedown"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onmousedown">onmousedown</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onmousemove"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onmousemove">onmousemove</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onmouseout"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onmouseout">onmouseout</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onmouseover"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onmouseover">onmouseover</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onmouseup"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onmouseup">onmouseup</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onmousewheel"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onmousewheel">onmousewheel</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onpause"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onpause">onpause</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onplay"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onplay">onplay</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onplaying"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onplaying">onplaying</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onprogress"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onprogress">onprogress</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onratechange"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onratechange">onratechange</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onreadystatechange"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onreadystatechange">onreadystatechange</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onreset"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onreset">onreset</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onscroll"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onscroll">onscroll</a></code>*</li>
<li><code title="handler-onseeked"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onseeked">onseeked</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onseeking"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onseeking">onseeking</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onselect"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onselect">onselect</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onshow"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onshow">onshow</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onstalled"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onstalled">onstalled</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onsubmit"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onsubmit">onsubmit</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onsuspend"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onsuspend">onsuspend</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-ontimeupdate"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-ontimeupdate">ontimeupdate</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onvolumechange"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onvolumechange">onvolumechange</a></code></li>
<li><code title="handler-onwaiting"><a href="webappapis.html#handler-onwaiting">onwaiting</a></code></li>
</ul><p class="note">The attributes marked with an asterisk have a
different meaning when specified on <code><a href="sections.html#the-body-element">body</a></code> elements as
those elements expose <a href="webappapis.html#event-handlers">event handlers</a> of the
<code><a href="browsers.html#window">Window</a></code> object with the same names.</p><p class="note">While these attributes apply to all elements, they
are not useful on all elements. For example, only <a href="the-iframe-element.html#media-element" title="media
element">media elements</a> will ever receive a <code title="event-media-volumechange"><a href="the-iframe-element.html#event-media-volumechange">volumechange</a></code> event fired by
the user agent.</p><hr><p><a href="#custom-data-attribute" title="custom data attribute">Custom data attributes</a>
(e.g. <code title="">data-foldername</code> or <code title="">data-msgid</code>) can be specified on any <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements" title="HTML elements">HTML element</a>, to store custom data
specific to the page.</p><hr><p>In <a href="dom.html#html-documents">HTML documents</a>, elements in the <a href="namespaces.html#html-namespace-0">HTML
namespace</a> may have an <code title="">xmlns</code> attribute
specified, if, and only if, it has the exact value
"<code>http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml</code>". This does not apply to
<a href="dom.html#xml-documents">XML documents</a>.</p><p class="note">In HTML, the <code title="">xmlns</code> attribute
has absolutely no effect. It is basically a talisman. It is allowed
merely to make migration to and from XHTML mildly easier. When
parsed by an <a href="parsing.html#html-parser">HTML parser</a>, the attribute ends up in no
namespace, not the "<code>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</code>"
namespace like namespace declaration attributes in XML do.</p><p class="note">In XML, an <code title="">xmlns</code> attribute is
part of the namespace declaration mechanism, and an element cannot
actually have an <code title="">xmlns</code> attribute in no
namespace specified.</p><hr><p>The XML specification also allows the use of the <code title="attr-xml-space">xml:space</code> attribute in the <a href="namespaces.html#xml-namespace">XML
namespace</a> on any element in an <a href="dom.html#xml-documents" title="XML
documents">XML document</a>. This attribute has no effect on
<a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a>, as the default behavior in HTML is to
preserve whitespace. <a href="references.html#refsXML">[XML]</a></p><p class="note">There is no way to serialize the <code title="attr-xml-space">xml:space</code> attribute on <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements">HTML
elements</a> in the <code><a href="iana.html#text-html">text/html</a></code> syntax.</p><hr><p>To enable assistive technology products to expose a more
fine-grained interface than is otherwise possible with HTML elements
and attributes, a set of <a href="content-models.html#wai-aria" title="WAI-ARIA">annotations for
assistive technology products</a> can be specified (the ARIA
<code title="attr-aria-role">role</code> and <code title="attr-aria-*">aria-*</code> attributes).</p><h5 id="the-id-attribute"><span class="secno">3.2.3.1 </span>The <dfn title="attr-id"><code>id</code></dfn> attribute</h5><p>The <code title="attr-id"><a href="#the-id-attribute">id</a></code> attribute specifies its
element's <dfn id="concept-id" title="concept-id">unique identifier (ID)</dfn>. The
value must be unique amongst all the IDs in the element's <a href="infrastructure.html#home-subtree">home
subtree</a> and must contain at least one character. The value
must not contain any <a href="common-microsyntaxes.html#space-character" title="space character">space
characters</a>.</p><p class="note">An element's <a href="#concept-id" title="concept-id">unique
identifier</a> can be used for a variety of purposes, most
notably as a way to link to specific parts of a document using
fragment identifiers, as a way to target an element when scripting,
and as a way to style a specific element from CSS.</p><div class="impl">
<p>If the value is not the empty string, user agents must associate
the element with the given value (exactly, including any space
characters) for the purposes of <a href="#concept-id" title="concept-id">ID</a> matching within the element's
<a href="infrastructure.html#home-subtree">home subtree</a> (e.g. for selectors in CSS or for the
<code title="dom-Document-getElementById"><a href="infrastructure.html#dom-document-getelementbyid">getElementById()</a></code>
method in the DOM).</p>
<p>Identifiers are opaque strings. Particular meanings should not be
derived from the value of the <code title="attr-id"><a href="#the-id-attribute">id</a></code>
attribute.</p>
<p>This specification doesn't preclude an element having multiple
IDs, if other mechanisms (e.g. DOM Core methods) can set an
element's <a href="#concept-id" title="concept-id">ID</a> in a way that doesn't conflict with the <code title="attr-id"><a href="#the-id-attribute">id</a></code> attribute.</p>
<p>The <dfn id="dom-id" title="dom-id"><code>id</code></dfn> IDL attribute must
<a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#reflect">reflect</a> the <code title="attr-id"><a href="#the-id-attribute">id</a></code> content
attribute.</p>
</div><h5 id="the-title-attribute"><span class="secno">3.2.3.2 </span>The <dfn title="attr-title"><code>title</code></dfn> attribute</h5><p>The <code title="attr-title"><a href="#the-title-attribute">title</a></code> attribute
<a href="rendering.html#represents">represents</a> advisory information for the element, such
as would be appropriate for a tooltip. On a link, this could be the
title or a description of the target resource; on an image, it could
be the image credit or a description of the image; on a paragraph,
it could be a footnote or commentary on the text; on a citation, it
could be further information about the source; and so forth. The
value is text.</p><p>If this attribute is omitted from an element, then it implies
that the <code title="attr-title"><a href="#the-title-attribute">title</a></code> attribute of the
nearest ancestor <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements" title="HTML elements">HTML element</a>
with a <code title="attr-title"><a href="#the-title-attribute">title</a></code> attribute set is also
relevant to this element. Setting the attribute overrides this,
explicitly stating that the advisory information of any ancestors is
not relevant to this element. Setting the attribute to the empty
string indicates that the element has no advisory information.</p><p>If the <code title="attr-title"><a href="#the-title-attribute">title</a></code> attribute's value
contains U+000A LINE FEED (LF) characters, the content is split into
multiple lines. Each U+000A LINE FEED (LF) character represents a
line break.</p><div class="example">
<p>Caution is advised with respect to the use of newlines in <code title="attr-title"><a href="#the-title-attribute">title</a></code> attributes.</p>
<p>For instance, the following snippet actually defines an
abbreviation's expansion <em>with a line break in it</em>:</p>
<pre class="bad">&lt;p&gt;My logs show that there was some interest in &lt;abbr title="Hypertext
Transport Protocol"&gt;HTTP&lt;/abbr&gt; today.&lt;/p&gt;</pre>
</div><p>Some elements, such as <code><a href="semantics.html#the-link-element">link</a></code>, <code><a href="text-level-semantics.html#the-abbr-element">abbr</a></code>, and
<code><a href="the-input-element.html#the-input-element">input</a></code>, define additional semantics for the <code title="attr-title"><a href="#the-title-attribute">title</a></code> attribute beyond the semantics
described above.</p><div class="impl">
<hr><p>The <dfn id="dom-title" title="dom-title"><code>title</code></dfn> IDL attribute
must <a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#reflect">reflect</a> the <code title="attr-title"><a href="#the-title-attribute">title</a></code>
content attribute.</p>
</div><h5 id="the-lang-and-xml:lang-attributes"><span class="secno">3.2.3.3 </span>The <code title="attr-lang"><a href="#attr-lang">lang</a></code> and <code title="attr-xml-lang"><a href="#attr-xml-lang">xml:lang</a></code> attributes</h5><p>The <dfn id="attr-lang" title="attr-lang"><code>lang</code></dfn> attribute (in
no namespace) specifies the primary language for the element's
contents and for any of the element's attributes that contain
text. Its value must be a valid BCP 47 language tag, or the empty
string. Setting the attribute to the empty string indicates that the
primary language is unknown. <a href="references.html#refsBCP47">[BCP47]</a></p><p>The <dfn id="attr-xml-lang" title="attr-xml-lang"><code title="">lang</code></dfn>
attribute in the <a href="namespaces.html#xml-namespace">XML namespace</a> is defined in XML. <a href="references.html#refsXML">[XML]</a></p><p>If these attributes are omitted from an element, then the
language of this element is the same as the language of its parent
element, if any.</p><p>The <code title="attr-lang"><a href="#attr-lang">lang</a></code> attribute in no namespace
may be used on any <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements" title="HTML elements">HTML
element</a>.</p><p>The <a href="#attr-xml-lang" title="attr-xml-lang"><code title="">lang</code>
attribute in the <span>XML namespace</span></a> may be used on
<a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a> in <a href="dom.html#xml-documents">XML documents</a>, as well as
elements in other namespaces if the relevant specifications allow it
(in particular, MathML and SVG allow <a href="#attr-xml-lang" title="attr-xml-lang"><code title="">lang</code> attributes in the
<span>XML namespace</span></a> to be specified on their
elements). If both the <code title="attr-lang"><a href="#attr-lang">lang</a></code> attribute
in no namespace and the <a href="#attr-xml-lang" title="attr-xml-lang"><code title="">lang</code> attribute in the <span>XML
namespace</span></a> are specified on the same element, they must
have exactly the same value when compared in an <a href="infrastructure.html#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII
case-insensitive</a> manner.</p><p>Authors must not use the <a href="#attr-xml-lang" title="attr-xml-lang"><code title="">lang</code> attribute in the <span>XML
namespace</span></a> on <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a> in <a href="dom.html#html-documents">HTML
documents</a>. To ease migration to and from XHTML, authors may
specify an attribute in no namespace with no prefix and with the
literal localname "<code title="">xml:lang</code>" on <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements">HTML
elements</a> in <a href="dom.html#html-documents">HTML documents</a>, but such attributes
must only be specified if a <code title="attr-lang"><a href="#attr-lang">lang</a></code>
attribute in no namespace is also specified, and both attributes
must have the same value when compared in an <a href="infrastructure.html#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII
case-insensitive</a> manner.</p><p class="note">The attribute in no namespace with no prefix and
with the literal localname "<code title="">xml:lang</code>" has no
effect on language processing.</p><div class="impl">
<hr><p>To determine the <dfn id="language">language</dfn> of a node, user agents must
look at the nearest ancestor element (including the element itself
if the node is an element) that has a <a href="#attr-xml-lang" title="attr-xml-lang"><code title="">lang</code> attribute in the
<span>XML namespace</span></a> set or is an <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements" title="HTML
elements">HTML element</a> and has a <code title="attr-lang"><a href="#attr-lang">lang</a></code> in no namespace attribute set. That
attribute specifies the language of the node (regardless of its
value).</p>
<p>If both the <code title="attr-lang"><a href="#attr-lang">lang</a></code> attribute in no
namespace and the <a href="#attr-xml-lang" title="attr-xml-lang"><code title="">lang</code> attribute in the <span>XML
namespace</span></a> are set on an element, user agents must use
the <a href="#attr-xml-lang" title="attr-xml-lang"><code title="">lang</code> attribute
in the <span>XML namespace</span></a>, and the <code title="attr-lang"><a href="#attr-lang">lang</a></code> attribute in no namespace must be
<a href="infrastructure.html#ignore" title="ignore">ignored</a> for the purposes of determining
the element's language.</p>
<p>If none of the node's ancestors, including the <a href="infrastructure.html#root-element">root
element</a>, have either attribute set, but there is a
<a href="semantics.html#pragma-set-default-language">pragma-set default language</a> set, then that is the
language of the node. If there is no <a href="semantics.html#pragma-set-default-language">pragma-set default
language</a> set, then language information from a higher-level
protocol (such as HTTP), if any, must be used as the final fallback
language instead. In the absence of any such language information,
and in cases where the higher-level protocol reports multiple
languages, the language of the node is unknown, and the
corresponding language tag is the empty string.</p>
<p>If the resulting value is not a recognized language tag, then it
must be treated as an unknown language having the given language
tag, distinct from all other languages. For the purposes of
round-tripping or communicating with other services that expect
language tags, user agents should pass unknown language tags
through unmodified.</p>
<p class="example">Thus, for instance, an element with <code title="">lang="xyzzy"</code> would be matched by the selector <code title="">:lang(xyzzy)</code> (e.g. in CSS), but it would not be
matched by <code title="">:lang(abcde)</code>, even though both are
equally invalid. Similarly, if a Web browser and screen reader
working in unison communicated about the language of the element,
the browser would tell the screen reader that the language was
"xyzzy", even if it knew it was invalid, just in case the screen
reader actually supported a language with that tag after all.</p>
<p>If the resulting value is the empty string, then it must be
interpreted as meaning that the language of the node is explicitly
unknown.</p>
<hr><p>User agents may use the element's language to determine proper
processing or rendering (e.g. in the selection of appropriate
fonts or pronunciations, or for dictionary selection). </p>
<hr><p>The <dfn id="dom-lang" title="dom-lang"><code>lang</code></dfn> IDL attribute
must <a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#reflect">reflect</a> the <code title="attr-lang"><a href="#attr-lang">lang</a></code>
content attribute in no namespace.</p>
</div><h5 id="the-xml:base-attribute-xml-only"><span class="secno">3.2.3.4 </span>The <dfn title="attr-xml-base"><code>xml:base</code></dfn>
attribute (XML only)</h5><p>The <code title="attr-xml-base"><a href="#the-xml:base-attribute-xml-only">xml:base</a></code> attribute is
defined in XML Base. <a href="references.html#refsXMLBASE">[XMLBASE]</a></p><p>The <code title="attr-xml-base"><a href="#the-xml:base-attribute-xml-only">xml:base</a></code> attribute may be
used on elements of <a href="dom.html#xml-documents">XML documents</a>. Authors must not
use the <code title="attr-xml-base"><a href="#the-xml:base-attribute-xml-only">xml:base</a></code> attribute in
<a href="dom.html#html-documents">HTML documents</a>.</p><h5 id="the-dir-attribute"><span class="secno">3.2.3.5 </span>The <dfn title="attr-dir"><code>dir</code></dfn> attribute</h5><p>The <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> attribute specifies the
element's text directionality. The attribute is an <a href="common-microsyntaxes.html#enumerated-attribute">enumerated
attribute</a> with the following keywords and states:</p><dl><dt>The <dfn id="attr-dir-ltr" title="attr-dir-ltr"><code>ltr</code></dfn> keyword, which maps to the <dfn id="attr-dir-ltr-state" title="attr-dir-ltr-state">ltr</dfn> state</dt>
<dd>
<p>Indicates that the contents of the element are explicitly
directionally embedded left-to-right text.</p>
</dd>
<dt>The <dfn id="attr-dir-rtl" title="attr-dir-rtl"><code>rtl</code></dfn> keyword, which maps to the <dfn id="attr-dir-rtl-state" title="attr-dir-rtl-state">rtl</dfn> state</dt>
<dd>
<p>Indicates that the contents of the element are explicitly
directionally embedded right-to-left text.</p>
</dd>
<dt>The <dfn id="attr-dir-auto" title="attr-dir-auto"><code>auto</code></dfn> keyword, which maps to the <dfn id="attr-dir-auto-state" title="attr-dir-auto-state">auto</dfn> state</dt>
<dd>
<p>Indicates that the contents of the element are explicitly
embedded text, but that the direction is to be determined
programmatically using the contents of the element (as described
below).</p>
<p class="note">The heuristic used by this state is very crude (it
just looks at the first character with a strong directionality, in
a manner analogous to the Paragraph Level determination in the
bidirectional algorithm). Authors are urged to only use this value
as a last resort when the direction of the text is truly unknown
and no better server-side heuristic can be applied.</p>
<p class="note">For <code><a href="the-button-element.html#the-textarea-element">textarea</a></code> and <code><a href="grouping-content.html#the-pre-element">pre</a></code>
elements, the heuristic is applied on a per-paragraph level.</p>
</dd>
</dl><p>The attribute has no <i>invalid value default</i> and no
<i>missing value default</i>.</p><p><dfn id="the-directionality">The directionality</dfn> of an element is either '<dfn id="concept-ltr" title="concept-ltr">ltr</dfn>' or '<dfn id="concept-rtl" title="concept-rtl">rtl</dfn>', and is determined as per the first
appropriate set of steps from the following list:</p><dl class="switch"><dt>If the element's <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> attribute is
in the <a href="#attr-dir-ltr-state" title="attr-dir-ltr-state">ltr</a> state</dt>
<dd><p><a href="#the-directionality">The directionality</a> of the element is '<a href="#concept-ltr" title="concept-ltr">ltr</a>'.</p></dd>
<dt>If the element's <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> attribute is
in the <a href="#attr-dir-rtl-state" title="attr-dir-rtl-state">rtl</a> state</dt>
<dd><p><a href="#the-directionality">The directionality</a> of the element is '<a href="#concept-rtl" title="concept-rtl">rtl</a>'.</p></dd>
<dt>If the element's <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> attribute is
in the <a href="#attr-dir-auto-state" title="attr-dir-auto-state">auto</a> state</dt>
<dt>If the element is a <code><a href="text-level-semantics.html#the-bdi-element">bdi</a></code> element and the <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> attribute is not in a defined state
(i.e. it is not present or has an invalid value)</dt>
<dd>
<p>Find the first character in <a href="infrastructure.html#tree-order">tree order</a> that
matches the following criteria:</p>
<ul><li><p>The character is from a <a href="infrastructure.html#text-node">text node</a> that is a
descendant of the element whose <a href="#the-directionality" title="the
directionality">directionality</a> is being
determined.</p></li>
<li><p>The character is of bidirectional character type L, AL,
or R. <a href="references.html#refsBIDI">[BIDI]</a></p></li>
<li>
<p>The character is not in a text node that has an ancestor
element that is a descendant of the element whose <a href="#the-directionality" title="the directionality">directionality</a> is being
determined and that is either:</p>
<ul class="brief"><li>A <code><a href="text-level-semantics.html#the-bdi-element">bdi</a></code> element.
</li><li>A <code><a href="scripting-1.html#the-script-element">script</a></code> element.
</li><li>A <code><a href="semantics.html#the-style-element">style</a></code> element.
</li><li>An element with a <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> attribute in a defined state.
</li></ul></li>
</ul><p>If such a character is found and it is of bidirectional
character type AL or R, <a href="#the-directionality">the directionality</a> of the
element is '<a href="#concept-rtl" title="concept-rtl">rtl</a>'.</p>
<p>Otherwise, <a href="#the-directionality">the directionality</a> of the element is
'<a href="#concept-ltr" title="concept-ltr">ltr</a>'.</p>
</dd>
<dt>If the element is a <a href="infrastructure.html#root-element">root element</a> and the <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> attribute is not in a defined state
(i.e. it is not present or has an invalid value)</dt>
<dd><p><a href="#the-directionality">The directionality</a> of the element is '<a href="#concept-ltr" title="concept-ltr">ltr</a>'.</p></dd>
<dt>If the element has a parent element and the <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> attribute is not in a defined state
(i.e. it is not present or has an invalid value)</dt>
<dd><p><a href="#the-directionality">The directionality</a> of the element is the same
as the element's parent element's <a href="#the-directionality" title="the
directionality">directionality</a>.</p></dd>
</dl><p>The effect of this attribute is primarily on the presentation
layer. For example, the rendering section in this specification
defines a mapping from this attribute to the CSS 'direction' and
'unicode-bidi' properties, and CSS defines rendering in terms of
those properties.</p><hr><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">document</var> . <code title="dom-dir"><a href="#dom-dir">dir</a></code> [ = <var title="">value</var> ]</dt>
<dd>
<p>Returns <a href="dom.html#the-html-element-0">the <code>html</code> element</a>'s <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> attribute's value, if any.</p>
<p>Can be set, to either "<code title="">ltr</code>", "<code title="">rtl</code>", or "<code title="">auto</code>" to replace <a href="dom.html#the-html-element-0">the <code>html</code> element</a>'s <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> attribute's value.</p>
<p>If there is no <a href="dom.html#the-html-element-0" title="the html element"><code>html</code> element</a>, returns the empty string and ignores new values.</p>
</dd>
</dl><div class="impl">
<p>The <dfn id="dom-dir" title="dom-dir"><code>dir</code></dfn> IDL attribute on
an element must <a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#reflect">reflect</a> the <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> content attribute of that element,
<a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#limited-to-only-known-values">limited to only known values</a>.</p>
<p>The <dfn id="dom-document-dir" title="dom-document-dir"><code>dir</code></dfn> IDL
attribute on <code><a href="dom.html#htmldocument">HTMLDocument</a></code> objects must
<a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#reflect">reflect</a> the <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> content
attribute of <a href="dom.html#the-html-element-0">the <code>html</code> element</a>, if any,
<a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#limited-to-only-known-values">limited to only known values</a>. If there is no such
element, then the attribute must return the empty string and do
nothing on setting.</p>
</div><p class="note">Authors are strongly encouraged to use the <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> attribute to indicate text direction
rather than using CSS, since that way their documents will continue
to render correctly even in the absence of CSS (e.g. as interpreted
by search engines).</p><div class="example">
<p>This markup fragment is of an IM conversation.</p>
<pre>&lt;p dir=auto class="u1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;bdi&gt;Student&lt;/bdi&gt;:&lt;/b&gt; How do you write "What's your name?" in Arabic?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=auto class="u2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;bdi&gt;Teacher&lt;/bdi&gt;:&lt;/b&gt; &#1605;&#1575; &#1575;&#1587;&#1605;&#1603;&#1567;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=auto class="u1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;bdi&gt;Student&lt;/bdi&gt;:&lt;/b&gt; Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=auto class="u2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;bdi&gt;Teacher&lt;/bdi&gt;:&lt;/b&gt; That's written "&#1588;&#1603;&#1585;&#1611;&#1575;".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=auto class="u2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;bdi&gt;Teacher&lt;/bdi&gt;:&lt;/b&gt; Do you know how to write "Please"?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=auto class="u1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;bdi&gt;Student&lt;/bdi&gt;:&lt;/b&gt; "&#1605;&#1606; &#1601;&#1590;&#1604;&#1603;", right?&lt;/p&gt;</pre>
<p>Given a suitable style sheet and the default alignment styles
for the <code><a href="grouping-content.html#the-p-element">p</a></code> element, namely to align the text to the
<i>start edge</i> of the paragraph, the resulting rendering could
be as follows:</p>
<p><img alt="Each paragraph rendered as a separate block, with the paragraphs left-aligned except the second paragraph and the last one, which would be right aligned, with the usernames ('Student' and 'Teacher' in this example) flush right, with a colon to their left, and the text first to the left of that." src="im.png"></p>
<p>As noted earlier, the <code title="attr-dir-auto"><a href="#attr-dir-auto">auto</a></code>
value is not a panacea. The final paragraph in this example is
misinterpreted as being right-to-left text, since it begins with an
Arabic character, which causes the "right?" to be to the left of
the Arabic text.</p>
</div><h5 id="classes"><span class="secno">3.2.3.6 </span>The <dfn title="attr-class"><code>class</code></dfn> attribute</h5><p>Every <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements" title="HTML elements">HTML element</a> may have a
<code title="attr-class"><a href="#classes">class</a></code> attribute specified.</p><p>The attribute, if specified, must have a value that is a
<a href="common-microsyntaxes.html#set-of-space-separated-tokens">set of space-separated tokens</a> representing the various
classes that the element belongs to.</p><div class="impl">
<p>The classes that an <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements" title="HTML elements">HTML
element</a> has assigned to it consists of all the classes
returned when the value of the <code title="attr-class"><a href="#classes">class</a></code>
attribute is <a href="common-microsyntaxes.html#split-a-string-on-spaces" title="split a string on spaces">split on
spaces</a>. (Duplicates are ignored.)</p>
</div><p class="note">Assigning classes to an element affects class
matching in selectors in CSS, the <code title="dom-document-getElementsByClassName"><a href="dom.html#dom-document-getelementsbyclassname">getElementsByClassName()</a></code>
method in the DOM, and other such features.</p><p>There are no additional restrictions on the tokens authors can
use in the <code title="attr-class"><a href="#classes">class</a></code> attribute, but
authors are encouraged to use values that describe the nature of the
content, rather than values that describe the desired presentation
of the content.</p><div class="impl">
<hr><p>The <dfn id="dom-classname" title="dom-className"><code>className</code></dfn> and
<dfn id="dom-classlist" title="dom-classList"><code>classList</code></dfn> IDL
attributes must both <a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#reflect">reflect</a> the <code title="attr-class"><a href="#classes">class</a></code> content attribute.</p>
</div><h5 id="the-style-attribute"><span class="secno">3.2.3.7 </span>The <dfn title="attr-style"><code>style</code></dfn> attribute</h5><p>All <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a> may have the <code title="attr-style"><a href="#the-style-attribute">style</a></code> content attribute set. This is a
<span>CSS styling attribute</span> as defined by the CSS Styling
Attribute Syntax specification. <a href="references.html#refsCSSATTR">[CSSATTR]</a></p><div class="impl">
<p>In user agents that support CSS, the attribute's value must be
parsed when the attribute is added or has its value changed, according
to the rules given for <span>CSS styling attributes</span>. <a href="references.html#refsCSSATTR">[CSSATTR]</a></p>
</div><p>Documents that use <code title="attr-style"><a href="#the-style-attribute">style</a></code>
attributes on any of their elements must still be comprehensible and
usable if those attributes were removed.</p><p class="note">In particular, using the <code title="attr-style"><a href="#the-style-attribute">style</a></code> attribute to hide and show content,
or to convey meaning that is otherwise not included in the document,
is non-conforming. (To hide and show content, use the <code title="attr-hidden"><a href="editing.html#the-hidden-attribute">hidden</a></code> attribute.)</p><hr><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">element</var> . <code title="dom-style"><a href="#dom-style">style</a></code></dt>
<dd>
<p>Returns a <code>CSSStyleDeclaration</code> object for the element's <code title="attr-style"><a href="#the-style-attribute">style</a></code> attribute.</p>
</dd>
</dl><div class="impl">
<p>The <dfn id="dom-style" title="dom-style"><code>style</code></dfn> IDL attribute
must return a <code>CSSStyleDeclaration</code> whose value
represents the declarations specified in the attribute, if
present. Mutating the <code>CSSStyleDeclaration</code> object must
create a <code title="attr-style"><a href="#the-style-attribute">style</a></code> attribute on the
element (if there isn't one already) and then change its value to be
a value representing the serialized form of the
<code>CSSStyleDeclaration</code> object. The same object must be
returned each time. <a href="references.html#refsCSSOM">[CSSOM]</a></p>
</div><div class="example">
<p>In the following example, the words that refer to colors are
marked up using the <code><a href="text-level-semantics.html#the-span-element">span</a></code> element and the <code title="attr-style"><a href="#the-style-attribute">style</a></code> attribute to make those words show
up in the relevant colors in visual media.</p>
<pre>&lt;p&gt;My sweat suit is &lt;span style="color: green; background:
transparent"&gt;green&lt;/span&gt; and my eyes are &lt;span style="color: blue;
background: transparent"&gt;blue&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</pre>
</div><h5 id="embedding-custom-non-visible-data-with-the-data-attributes"><span class="secno">3.2.3.8 </span><dfn>Embedding custom non-visible data</dfn> with the <code title="attr-data-*"><a href="#attr-data">data-*</a></code> attributes</h5><p>A <dfn id="custom-data-attribute">custom data attribute</dfn> is an attribute in no
namespace whose name starts with the string "<dfn id="attr-data" title="attr-data-*"><code>data-</code></dfn>", has at least one
character after the hyphen, is <a href="infrastructure.html#xml-compatible">XML-compatible</a>, and
contains no characters in the range U+0041 to U+005A (LATIN CAPITAL
LETTER A to LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z).</p><p class="note">All attributes on <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a> in
<a href="dom.html#html-documents">HTML documents</a> get ASCII-lowercased automatically, so
the restriction on ASCII uppercase letters doesn't affect such
documents.</p><p><a href="#custom-data-attribute" title="custom data attribute">Custom data attributes</a>
are intended to store custom data private to the page or
application, for which there are no more appropriate attributes or
elements.</p><p>These attributes are not intended for use by software that is
independent of the site that uses the attributes.</p><div class="example">
<p>For instance, a site about music could annotate list items
representing tracks in an album with custom data attributes
containing the length of each track. This information could then be
used by the site itself to allow the user to sort the list by track
length, or to filter the list for tracks of certain lengths.</p>
<pre>&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li data-length="2m11s"&gt;Beyond The Sea&lt;/li&gt;
...
&lt;/ol&gt;</pre>
<p>It would be inappropriate, however, for the user to use generic
software not associated with that music site to search for tracks
of a certain length by looking at this data.</p>
<p>This is because these attributes are intended for use by the
site's own scripts, and are not a generic extension mechanism for
publicly-usable metadata.</p>
</div><p>Every <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements" title="HTML elements">HTML element</a> may have
any number of <a href="#custom-data-attribute" title="custom data attribute">custom data
attributes</a> specified, with any value.</p><hr><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">element</var> . <code title="dom-dataset"><a href="#dom-dataset">dataset</a></code></dt>
<dd>
<p>Returns a <code><a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#domstringmap">DOMStringMap</a></code> object for the element's <code title="attr-data-*"><a href="#attr-data">data-*</a></code> attributes.</p>
<p>Hyphenated names become camel-cased. For example, <code title="">data-foo-bar=""</code> becomes <code title="">element.dataset.fooBar</code>.</p>
</dd>
</dl><div class="impl">
<p>The <dfn id="dom-dataset" title="dom-dataset"><code>dataset</code></dfn> IDL
attribute provides convenient accessors for all the <code title="attr-data-*"><a href="#attr-data">data-*</a></code> attributes on an element. On
getting, the <code title="dom-dataset"><a href="#dom-dataset">dataset</a></code> IDL attribute
must return a <code><a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#domstringmap">DOMStringMap</a></code> object, associated with the
following algorithms, which expose these attributes on their
element:</p>
<dl><dt>The algorithm for getting the list of name-value pairs</dt>
<dd>
<ol><li>Let <var title="">list</var> be an empty list of name-value
pairs.</li>
<li>For each content attribute on the element whose first five
characters are the string "<code title="">data-</code>" and whose
remaining characters (if any) do not include any characters in
the range U+0041 to U+005A (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A to LATIN
CAPITAL LETTER Z), add a name-value pair to <var title="">list</var> whose name is the attribute's name with the
first five characters removed and whose value is the attribute's
value.</li>
<li>For each name on the list, for each U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS
character (-) in the name that is followed by a character in the
range U+0061 to U+007A (U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A to U+007A
LATIN SMALL LETTER Z), remove the U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS character
(-) and replace the character that followed it by the same
character <a href="infrastructure.html#converted-to-ascii-uppercase">converted to ASCII uppercase</a>.</li>
<li>Return <var title="">list</var>.</li>
</ol></dd>
<dt>The algorithm for setting names to certain values</dt>
<dd>
<ol><li>Let <var title="">name</var> be the name passed to the
algorithm.</li>
<li>Let <var title="">value</var> be the value passed to the
algorithm.</li>
<li>If <var title="">name</var> contains a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS
character (-) followed by a character in the range U+0061 to
U+007A (U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A to U+007A LATIN SMALL LETTER
Z), throw a <code><a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#syntax_err">SYNTAX_ERR</a></code> exception and abort these
steps.</li>
<li>For each character in the range U+0041 to U+005A (U+0041
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A to U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z) in <var title="">name</var>, insert a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS character (-)
before the character and replace the character with the same
character <a href="infrastructure.html#converted-to-ascii-lowercase">converted to ASCII lowercase</a>.</li>
<li>Insert the string <code title="">data-</code> at the front of
<var title="">name</var>.</li>
<li>Set the value of the attribute with the name <var title="">name</var>, to the value <var title="">value</var>,
replacing any previous value if the attribute already existed. If
<code title="">setAttribute()</code> would have raised an
exception when setting an attribute with the name <var title="">name</var>, then this must raise the same
exception.</li>
</ol></dd>
<dt>The algorithm for deleting names</dt>
<dd>
<ol><li>Let <var title="">name</var> be the name passed to the
algorithm.</li>
<li>For each character in the range U+0041 to U+005A (U+0041
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A to U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z) in <var title="">name</var>, insert a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS character (-)
before the character and replace the character with the same
character <a href="infrastructure.html#converted-to-ascii-lowercase">converted to ASCII lowercase</a>.</li>
<li>Insert the string <code title="">data-</code> at the front of
<var title="">name</var>.</li>
<li>Remove the attribute with the name <var title="">name</var>,
if such an attribute exists. Do nothing otherwise.</li>
</ol></dd>
</dl><p>The same object must be returned each time.</p>
</div><div class="example">
<p>If a Web page wanted an element to represent a space ship,
e.g. as part of a game, it would have to use the <code title="attr-class"><a href="#classes">class</a></code> attribute along with <code title="attr-data-*"><a href="#attr-data">data-*</a></code> attributes:</p>
<pre>&lt;div class="spaceship" data-ship-id="92432"
data-weapons="laser 2" data-shields="50%"
data-x="30" data-y="10" data-z="90"&gt;
&lt;button class="fire"
onclick="spaceships[this.parentNode.dataset.shipId].fire()"&gt;
Fire
&lt;/button&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</pre>
<p>Notice how the hyphenated attribute name becomes camel-cased in
the API.</p>
</div><p>Authors should carefully design such extensions so that when the
attributes are ignored and any associated CSS dropped, the page is
still usable.</p><div class="impl">
<p>User agents must not derive any implementation behavior from
these attributes or values. Specifications intended for user agents
must not define these attributes to have any meaningful values.</p>
</div><p>JavaScript libraries may use the <a href="#custom-data-attribute" title="custom data
attribute">custom data attributes</a>, as they are considered to
be part of the page on which they are used. Authors of libraries
that are reused by many authors are encouraged to include their name
in the attribute names, to reduce the risk of clashes. Where it
makes sense, library authors are also encouraged to make the exact
name used in the attribute names customizable, so that libraries
whose authors unknowingly picked the same name can be used on the
same page, and so that multiple versions of a particular library can
be used on the same page even when those versions are not mutually
compatible.</p><div class="example">
<p>For example, a library called "DoQuery" could use attribute
names like <code title="">data-doquery-range</code>, and a library
called "jJo" could use attributes names like <code title="">data-jjo-range</code>. The jJo library could also provide
an API to set which prefix to use (e.g. <code title="">J.setDataPrefix('j2')</code>, making the attributes have
names like <code title="">data-j2-range</code>).</p>
</div><h4 id="element-definitions"><span class="secno">3.2.4 </span>Element definitions</h4><p>Each element in this specification has a definition that includes
the following information:</p><dl><dt>Categories</dt>
<dd><p>A list of <a href="content-models.html#content-categories" title="content categories">categories</a>
to which the element belongs. These are used when defining the
<a href="content-models.html#content-models">content models</a> for each element.</p></dd>
<dt>Contexts in which this element can be used</dt>
<dd>
<p>A <em>non-normative</em> description of where the element can
be used. This information is redundant with the content models of
elements that allow this one as a child, and is provided only as a
convenience.</p>
<p class="note">For simplicity, only the most specific
expectations are listed. For example, an element that is both
<a href="content-models.html#flow-content">flow content</a> and <a href="content-models.html#phrasing-content">phrasing content</a> can be
used anywhere that either <a href="content-models.html#flow-content">flow content</a> or
<a href="content-models.html#phrasing-content">phrasing content</a> is expected, but since anywhere that
<a href="content-models.html#flow-content">flow content</a> is expected, <a href="content-models.html#phrasing-content">phrasing
content</a> is also expected (since all <a href="content-models.html#phrasing-content">phrasing
content</a> is <a href="content-models.html#flow-content">flow content</a>), only "where
<a href="content-models.html#phrasing-content">phrasing content</a> is expected" will be listed.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Content model</dt>
<dd><p>A normative description of what content must be included as
children and descendants of the element.</p></dd>
<dt>Content attributes</dt>
<dd><p>A normative list of attributes that may be specified on the
element (except where otherwise disallowed).</p></dd>
<dt>DOM interface</dt>
<dd><p>A normative definition of a DOM interface that such elements
must implement.</p></dd>
</dl><p>This is then followed by a description of what the element
<a href="rendering.html#represents">represents</a>, along with any additional normative
conformance criteria that may apply to authors<span class="impl" title=""> and implementations</span>. Examples are sometimes
also included.</p><h5 id="attributes"><span class="secno">3.2.4.1 </span>Attributes</h5><p id="attribute-text">Except where otherwise specified, attributes
on <a href="infrastructure.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a> may have any string value, including
the empty string. Except where explicitly stated, there is no
restriction on what text can be specified in such attributes.</p></body></html>