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These basic elements provide the most common graphical user interface (GUI) elements, but not all. For example, there are no equivalents to a tree view or grid view. A grid view, however, can be mimicked by using a standard HTML table with each cell containing a text input element.
A description list (a.k.a. association list or definition list) consists of name–value groups, [21] and was known as a definition list prior to HTML5. [22] Description lists are intended for groups of "terms and definitions, metadata topics and values, questions and answers, or any other groups of name–value data". [23]
In HTML and XML, a numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Coded Character Set/Unicode code point, and uses the format: &#xhhhh;. or &#nnnn; where the x must be lowercase in XML documents, hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form, and nnnn is the code point in decimal form.
Some HTML elements are defined as empty elements and take the form < tag attribute1 = "value1" attribute2 = "value2" >. Empty elements may enclose no content, for instance, the < br > tag or the inline < img > tag. The name of an HTML element is the name used in the tags. The end tag's name is preceded by a slash character /. If a tag has no ...
It functions the same as the previous example with the content of the "ordered list without any list items", which itself is an ordered list, expressed with # codes; the HTML produced, and hence the rendering, is the same. This is the simplest method, and recommended when starting a simple list with number 1.
In HTML DOM (Document Object Model), every element is a node: [4] A document is a document node. All HTML elements are element nodes. All HTML attributes are attribute nodes. Text inserted into HTML elements are text nodes. Comments are comment nodes.
For example, placing a "cite" attribute on a "cite" element is invalid since the HTML and XHTML DTDs do not ascribe any meaning to that attribute on that element. Similarly, including a "p" element within the content of an "em" element is also invalid.
HTML that has been written to conform to both the HTML and XHTML specifications and therefore produces the same DOM tree whether parsed as HTML or XML is known as polyglot markup. [ 124 ] There is no DTD for XHTML5.