115 standard elements · 36 obsolete or proposed · 118 live examples
Every HTML element,
alive.
See each element render, edit its code, and read what the HTML standard says about it. Every element description is quoted from the WHATWG HTML Living Standard and MDN, nothing is paraphrased.
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Sources synced: WHATWG standard of 4 November 2026, MDN of 2026-11-04.
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- 4.1 The document element The tag that wraps your whole page: every other tag goes inside it. 1 element
- 4.2 Document metadata Information visitors don't see on the page: its title in the browser tab, its description, links to CSS files. 6 elements
- 4.3 Sections The big building blocks of a page: header, navigation menu, articles, sidebars, footer and headings. 15 elements
- 4.4 Grouping content Organize your text into blocks: paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, quotes, generic boxes. 16 elements
- 4.5 Text-level semantics Give meaning to words inside a sentence: links, emphasis, important words, code, dates, line breaks. 29 elements
- 4.7 Edits Show what was added to or removed from a text, like tracked changes in a document. 2 elements
- 4.8 Embedded content Put images, videos, sound, other web pages, drawings and math formulas into your page. 13 elements
- 4.9 Tabular data Build tables of data, with rows, columns, header cells and a caption. 10 elements
- 4.10 Forms Let visitors type, choose and send information: text fields, checkboxes, drop-down lists, buttons. 15 elements
- 4.11 Interactive elements Ready-made interactive widgets: sections that open and close on click, and dialog boxes. 3 elements
- 4.12 Scripting Add JavaScript to your page, and prepare content that scripts fill in or draw on. 5 elements
- Do not use Obsolete elements Old tags you may still find in old code. Don't use them: each one tells you what to use instead. 29 elements
- Outside the standard Proposals and non-standard elements New tags still being tested, or that only one browser supports. Check their support before using them. 7 elements
- Attribute index Global attributes Attributes like id, class and hidden that work on every tag. 31 attributes