Saturday 7 March 2009

Five Favorite HTML Elements

Today I’m in a “gee, I feel like starting a conversation about HTML” mood, so g’wan. List your top five favorite HTML elements from any version of HTML (including 5). Describe why you love this element, how you tend to use it (or if it’s obsolete, why you wish it weren’t), and include any tips for styling, scripting or cross-browser issues regarding the element.

Your list should contain only HTML elements, but your descriptions can include any CSS or script samples, links to your  own work (go ahead, show off your stuff!) and any other related techniques you’d like to talk about.

There’s a book, t-shirt and other swag available to the top three most interesting entries. There’s nothing fair about the way I’ll give these out, it’ll be based solely on the top three responses I think are most interesting, useful or in need of an in-depth response.

Ready, set, GO!

Filed under:   HTML, browsers, css, giveaways and fun, javascript, nmby, software, standards, w3c
Posted by:   Molly | 20:51 | Comments (53)

53 Responses to “Five Favorite HTML Elements”

1. Andy Gongea says:

   Tuesday 17 March 2009 at 23:59

   DIV, P, h1, a, ol
2. Matt Fletcher says:

   Thursday 19 March 2009 at 10:03

   What happened to http://www.molly.com/templates ?

   That was my bookmark for every new page I started
3. Greg Mayer says:

   Friday 20 March 2009 at 17:37

   10 years ago (after actually looking at several old pages), apparently it was:

   center, a, p, table and font (honorable mention for hr and br)

   Now, it’s:

   style, a, p, div and dl

   style – let us all get away from font, center and table (except for tabular data, of course).

   a – ’nuff said

   p – still a workhorse for content, but has to contend with:

   div – size it, float it, background image it!

   dl – one of my favorites (duh, it’s a list of favorites), useful in so many ways, from thumbnail display to actual definitions