HTML tags and attributes you probably didn't know

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I list some html tags that you probably or you didn't know about that

1)<noscript>:
For displaying alternate HTML content if the browser doesn't support JavaScript.

2)spellcheck
It's used to check spelling and grammar.

3)download
It instructs the browser to download a URL instead of navigating.

4)<kbd>
The <kbd> elements denotes a key on a keyboard.

5)<datalist>
The <datalist> element is used to provide an "autocomplete" feature for <input> elements.

6) <abbr>
This tag is used to represent an acronym or abbreviation of a longer word or phrase. The content written between tags renders with dotted underline in some browser.

This tag can be used with "title" attribute (optional), and the value of title attribute will be pop-up when the mouse hovers over the content written between tag.

7)<optgroup>
When we're using <select> tag ,at that time , to out proper options to the selection box , <optgroup> tag is used in HTML5 .
This element includes global attributes like: 'disable ' & 'label'.

8)<address>
The <address> tag basically provide contact information regarding author or owner of the organisation or documents or an article,The <address> tag always returns the value italics.

9)<cite>
Citation is the term which is quotation from or a reference to a book,paper or author especially in a scholarly work.
As all of use know about <blockquote> , it's just similar to it.

10) <acronym>
The <acronym> tag is compatible in any browser as well as it is used to abbreviate the full form of the title which is placed between these tags when hovered.

11)hidden
The browser won't display elements that have the hidden attribute specified.

12)accept
The accept attribute specifies a filter for what file types the user can pick from the file input dialog box.

13)translate
It tells the browser whether the content should be translated or not.

14)inputmode

If you pick the type="number" when the keyboard opens on mobile, it will only open with numbers.

Top comments (3)

Jon Randy 🎖️ • Dec 19 '21 • Edited

<abbr> is for marking up an abbreviation. The title attribute is usually used on this tag to give the full expanded version of the abbreviated text, but it is not exclusive to the abbr tag.