# HTML 4.0 Elements

The following is an organizational list of all HTML 4.0 elements. An alphabetical list is also available.

## Top-level Elements

- HTML - HTML document
  - HEAD - Document head
  - BODY - Document body
  - FRAMESET - Frameset

## Head Elements

- BASE - Document base URI
- ISINDEX - Input prompt
- LINK - Document relationship
- META - Metadata
- SCRIPT - Client-side script
- STYLE - Embedded style sheet
- TITLE - Document title

## Generic Block-level Elements

- ADDRESS - Address
- BLOCKQUOTE - Block quotation
- CENTER - Centered block
- DEL - Deleted text
- DIV - Generic block-level container
- H1 - Level-one heading
- H2 - Level-two heading
- H3 - Level-three heading
- H4 - Level-four heading
- H5 - Level-five heading
- H6 - Level-six heading
- HR - Horizontal rule
- INS - Inserted text
- ISINDEX - Input prompt
- NOSCRIPT - Alternate script content
- P - Paragraph
- PRE - Preformatted text

## Lists

- DIR - Directory list
- DL - Definition list
  - DT - Definition term
  - DD - Definition description
- LI - List item
- MENU - Menu list
- OL - Ordered list
- UL - Unordered list

## Tables

- TABLE - Table
  - CAPTION - Table caption
  - COLGROUP - Table column group
    - COL - Table column
  - THEAD - Table head
  - TFOOT - Table foot
  - TBODY - Table body
  - TR - Table row
    - TD - Table data cell
    - TH - Table header cell

## Forms

- FORM - Interactive form
  - BUTTON - Button
  - FIELDSET - Form control group
    - LEGEND - Fieldset caption
  - INPUT - Form input
  - LABEL - Form field label
  - SELECT - Option selector
    - OPTGROUP - Option group
      - OPTION - Menu option
  - TEXTAREA - Multi-line text input

## Special Inline Elements

- A - Anchor
- APPLET - Java applet
- BASEFONT - Base font change
- BDO - BiDi override
- BR - Line break
- FONT - Font change
- IFRAME - Inline frame
- IMG - Inline image
- MAP - Image map
  - AREA - Image map region
- OBJECT - Object
- PARAM - Object parameter
- Q - Short quotation
- SCRIPT - Client-side script
- SPAN - Generic inline container
- SUB - Subscript
- SUP - Superscript

## Phrase Elements

- ABBR - Abbreviation
- ACRONYM - Acronym
- CITE - Citation
- CODE - Computer code
- DEL - Deleted text
- DFN - Defined term
- EM - Emphasis
- INS - Inserted text
- KBD - Text to be input
- SAMP - Sample output
- STRONG - Strong emphasis
- VAR - Variable

## Font Style Elements

- B - Bold text
- BIG - Large text
- I - Italic text
- S - Strike-through text
- SMALL - Small text
- STRIKE - Strike-through text
- TT - Teletype text
- U - Underlined text

## Frames

- FRAMESET - Frameset
  - FRAME - Frame
- NOFRAMES - Frames alternate content