HTML help

January 30, 2006 9:25 AM

Is there a site on the internet where I can type in an html tag or attribute and get an explanation of what it does?
posted by dial-tone to computers & internet (9 comments total)

Yes, there is! Load the index of tags (or one of attributes) and use your browser's search functionality, into which you will type the tag or attribute name.
posted by majick at 9:30 AM on January 30, 2006

oops! here we go: w3schools
posted by freudianslipper at 9:52 AM on January 30, 2006

Thanks!
posted by dial-tone at 9:54 AM on January 30, 2006

This may seem blindingly obvious to only me, but there's also Google. I just ran this search to double-check some markup.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 10:13 AM on January 30, 2006

My favorite such resource is index dot html over at blooberry. Also valuable is index dot css...

You can't type it in, but it's easy to navigate to the tags/attributes you want and goes so far as to break down all the cross browser compatibility bits, etc... I love it.
posted by twiggy at 11:19 AM on January 30, 2006

Another bonus with blooberry, mentioned by twiggy, is that you can download an entire mirror of the site for off-line usage.
posted by odinsdream at 12:32 PM on January 30, 2006

HTML help is available at, oddly, htmlhelp.com.
posted by dhartung at 2:22 PM on January 30, 2006

Sizzling Jalfrezi is an excellent reference site.
posted by megatherium at 3:46 PM on January 30, 2006

I've always been partial to WebMonkey, if only because of their name.
posted by Jim T at 5:57 PM on January 30, 2006