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Tag, you’re it! The Dreamweaver Tag Chooser

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Web authors have a wide variety of HTML or XHTML tags to work with when creating Web pages. In addition to common tags like <p>, <ul> or <strong>, there are lesser-known, but still useful ones such as those below:

HTML/XHTML Element Use
<acronym> An acronym
<cite> A citation to a document such as a book or magazine
<code> A code sample
<dfn> A term that is being defined
<q> A short, inline quote
<sub>,<sup> A subscript and superscript

There are dozens of similarly useful and perfectly valid elements available for use. Some of them, such as <code>, have a default style in most browsers (<code> will render in a monospaced font). Others such as <acronym> have no default style. However, you can use the tags as hooks to add your own style by redefining the look of the element using CSS.

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