Markup Languages: More Than HTML5 - Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML - page 79

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Attribute Element(s) Description Value

cols textarea Maximum number of characters

per line

Non-negative integer greater
than zero

colspan td , th Number of columns that the cell is

to span

Non-negative integer greater
than zero

content meta Meta content Text

contenteditable HTML elements true | false Determines whether the element

is editable

controls audio , video Playback controls Boolean attribute

coords area

Shape coordinates (image map) List of integers

crossorigin audio , img , link , script ,

video

anonymous | use-
credentials

Determines how the element
handles crossorigin requests

data object Resource URL URL

datetime del , ins Date and (optionally) time of

modification

Date string with optional
time

datetime time Time value Date or time string

default track Enable the track if there is no more

suitable track

Boolean attribute

defer script Defers script execution Boolean attribute

dir ltr | rtl | auto 11

HTML elements Text directionality

dirname input , textarea Form field name to send

directionality (form submission)

Text

disabled button , fieldset , input ,

keygen , optgroup , option ,
select , textarea

Determines whether the form
control is disabled

Boolean attribute

download a , area Indicates resource to be

downloaded rather than
navigating to it, and declares the
filename

Text

enctype form application/x-www-form-

urlencoded | multipart/
form-data | text/plain

Encoding type (form submission)

for label Associates the label with a form

control

ID

for output

Specifies controls from which the
output was calculated

Unordered set of unique
space-separated tokens
(case-sensitive)

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11 The auto attribute value cannot be used on the bdo element.