HTML <legend> Tag

 

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The <legend> Tag in HTML 5


<legend> Tag Syntax

Rules for coding HTML legend elements

<legend> Tag Attributes

Attributes of the <legend> tag
global attributes In addition to the personal attributes of the <legend> tag below, any of the common HTML attributes can also be coded.

<legend> Tag Examples

Examples of the legend tag in HTML 5

Changes in HTML 5 - <legend> Tag

What's new in HTML 5
Differences between HTML 5 and earlier versions of HTML

The following attributes should not be coded on the <legend> tag because they either have been deprecated or were never officially supported:

  • align

The 2000-2010 Recommendations from the W3C HTML Working Group defined the HTML namespace for the legend element type name along with the names of all HTML element types. In older (pre-2000) versions of HTML, element type names were not associated with a namespace.


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