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<AU></AU>

Display text as an author


Element is used to mark a name or section of text as an author.

        <html>
        <head>
        <title>Some Title</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            .
            .
==>>    <AU>Edgar Allen Poe</AU> was a poet.
            .
            .
        </body>
        </html>

The text marked by this element may be shown in italics. It appears that someday we'll be able to pick out items in documents based on such a tag. It really doesn't do much for you right now.

HTML 3.0 Draft
Adds the language elements.
Attributes common to almost all of the tags permitted in the document body include ID, LANG and CLASS. You probably won't be using any of these tags for a while but I've included them so you know they are coming.
ID
A name to be used as a target for links or for naming particular elements in a style sheet. These take the place of the HTML 2.0 <A NAME="somename">Some Name</A> construct that defines internal document links.
LANG
An ISO standard language abbreviation that defines language specific elements to be used.
CLASS
Used to assign a class name to a tag.
An example of these attributes in use is:
<AU ID="topicone" LANG="en-US" CLASS=section>Edgar Allen Poe</AU>

Netscape

Nothing special.

Microsoft IE

Nothing special.

Internationalization

Nothing special.

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