Sites that claim to list all HTML tags or elements don't seem to have them all.

[janeslogin]

Just curious. I am not doing anything with HTML except scanning sites about it.

Sites that claim to list *all *HTML tags or elements don’t seem to have them all.

The ones that just jumped out at me are < and > which seem not be in lists of “all” tags. Am I just getting a run of bad lists? Are these not HTML?

Are ‘hover’ and ‘link’ and ‘visited’ not HTML?

[friedo]

You’re talking about three different things.

< and > are not tags, they are character entities. You can find a good list of named HTML 4 entities here. (I don’t know if that’s all of them.) You can use entity syntax to represent any Unicode codepoint with “&#xNNNN;” where NNNN is the codepoint value in hex.

“Hover” and “visited” are possible CSS pseudoclasses for specifying display behavior for various types of HTML elements like <a> tags. There is a <link> tag as well which is used to associate other URLs with the current one; the main use is for including CSS stylesheets and RSS feeds.

[dzero]

@friedo

You’re talking about three different things.

< and > are not tags, they are character entities. You can find a good list of named HTML 4 entities here. (I don’t know if that’s all of them.) You can use entity syntax to represent any Unicode codepoint with “&#xNNNN;” where NNNN is the codepoint value in hex.

“Hover” and “visited” are possible CSS pseudoclasses for specifying display behavior for various types of HTML elements like <a> tags. There is a <link> tag as well which is used to associate other URLs with the current one; the main use is for including CSS stylesheets and RSS feeds.

Thanks for the unicode lesson. Do you happen to know what prefix to use for BB Code? I looked it up and think it was just and ampersand, but that didn’t seem to work here. I guess not all of the features of BB code are implemented here. I had the same problem trying to create a table with the td, tr and tc (??) codes. Thanks.