HTML Elements and Attributes for Hyperlinks, Scripts and Style Sheets

Guest Author - Diane Cipollo

Below is a list of the most commonly used^*** html element tags that control an hyperlinks, scripts and styles sheets on the webpage.

Note: Some attributes listed below have been depreciated in favor of Cascading Style Sheets.

HTML Elements and Attributes for Hyperlinks, Scripts and Style Sheets
Element	Opening Tag	Attributes	Closing Tag	Description
style	<style>	type="?"	</style>	Defines a style sheet type - type of style sheet
script	<script>	language="?" event="?" for="?"	</script>	Defines a script language - script language event - trigger for script for - what script affects
a	<a>	href="?" name="?"	</a>	Creates a hyperlink on the webpage. href - The href attribute is required and supplies 1. the next page (URL) 2. the location on a page (#location) 3. an email link (mailto:your_email) name - The name attribute marks the location for the destination of a jump link (refers to #location)

^***A complete list of html element tags can be found at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/index/elements.html
^**Color can be set using color names (red, black, etc) or RGB color codes or hexidecimal color codes.