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HTML 5 <style> Tag

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The HTML <style> tag is used for declaring style sheets within your HTML document.

Each HTML document can contain multiple <style> tags.

In HTML 5, the <style> tag can be used within the <body> element (or its child elements) as long as the scoped attribute is used. If the scoped attribute is not used, each <style> tag must be located between the <head> tags (or a <noscript> element that is a child of a <head> element).

Example

Modify the code below, then click "Update". See below for attributes.

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Attributes

HTML tags can contain one or more attributes. Attributes are added to a tag to provide the browser with more information about how the tag should appear or behave. Attributes consist of a name and a value separated by an equals (=) sign, with the value surrounded by double quotes. Here's an example, style="color:black;".

There are 3 kinds of attributes that you can add to your HTML tags: Element-specific, global, and event handler content attributes.

The attributes that you can add to this tag are listed below.

Element-Specific Attributes

The following table shows the attributes that are specific to this tag/element.

AttributeDescription
typeSpecifies the style sheet language as a content-type (MIME type).
mediaSpecifies the device that the styles apply to. Must be a valid media query.

Possible values:

  • all
  • braille
  • print
  • projection
  • screen
  • speech
scopedSpecifies that the styles only apply to this element's parent element and that element's child elements. If this attribute is not used, styles will be applied to the whole document.

Note that if the <style> tag is being used outside of the document <head>, it must have the scoped attribute.

Global Attributes

The following attributes are standard across all HTML 5 tags.

class id style
contenteditable irrelevant tabindex
contextmenu lang template
dir ref title
draggable registrationmark  

For a full explanation of these attributes, see HTML 5 global attributes.

Event Handler Content Attributes

Event handler content attributes enable you to invoke a script from within your HTML. The script is invoked when a certain "event" occurs. Each event handler content attribute deals with a different event.

Here are the standard HTML 5 event handler content attributes.

onabort ondragover onmousemove
onbeforeunload ondragstart onmouseout
onblur ondrop onmouseover
onchange onerror onmouseup
onclick onfocus onmousewheel
oncontextmenu onkeydown onresize
ondblclick onkeypress onscroll
ondrag onkeyup onselect
ondragend onload onstorage
ondragenter onmessage onsubmit
ondragleave onmousedown onunload

For a full explanation of these attributes, see HTML 5 event handler content attributes.

Also see the HTML 4.01 tags


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