Request - your most frequently used/"default" tag attributes

I'm currently writing an HTML editor for the PocketPC, and one of my
Tag class's properties is DefaultAttributes. The idea behind this is
that some tags are almost always used with certain attributes, ie <a
href="">, so I'd like to make sure those attributes are included when
I insert the tag. Since I actually don't write that much HTML myself,
I was hoping to get some feedback as to which tag/attribute
combinations are used particularly frequently. Since I did cross-post
this (hopefully not annoyingly so), e-mails to markulus00 -at-
yahoo.com would be greatly appreciated (though I will check these
newsgroups as well).

Thanks!

Mark Erikson

Mark Erikson <markulus00 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote in
news:caifivo6mlalk7h1ct05uju372vum945ee (AT) 4ax (DOT) com:

I was hoping to get some feedback as to which tag/attribute
combinations are used particularly frequently.
Mark Erikson

You could start by using all attributes marked as #REQUIRED in the
specification.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/index/attributes.html

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:34:59 -0400, Mark Erikson
<markulus00 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

I'm currently writing an HTML editor for the PocketPC, and one of my
Tag class's properties is DefaultAttributes. The idea behind this is
that some tags are almost always used with certain attributes, ie <a
href="">, so I'd like to make sure those attributes are included when
I insert the tag. Since I actually don't write that much HTML myself,
I was hoping to get some feedback as to which tag/attribute
combinations are used particularly frequently.

<img src="" alt="">

<form action="">

Nick

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nicholas_theodorakis (AT) urmc (DOT) rochester.edu (Nick Theodorakis) wrote:

img src="" alt=""

form action=""

The attributes in those elements are even _required_ by HTML syntax (by
HTML 4.01 at least - the alt attribute was "only" recommended, not
formally required, before HTML 4.0).

An HTML editor should naturally makes it best to ensure that the markup
is syntactically valid, unless the user specifically requests
otherwise. In particular, it should prompt the user for values for all
required attributes and include them.

Checking the list of attributes, the handy appendix of the HTML 4.01
specification, at
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html
you can find what attributes are required, by looking at the "Default"
column.

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