<VAR></VAR>

Display text as a variable name

Element is used to mark a variable name in a some computer command. The browser usually displays the text in italics.

        <html>
        <head>
        <title>Some Title</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            .
            .
==>>    <VAR>StudentAge</VAR>
            .
            .
        </body>
        </html>

You might want to use this if you are documenting some operator procedures. You could embed this in one of the other formatting commands as follows:


    Enter <kbd>del <var>filename</var></kbd> to delete a file.

HTML 3.0 Draft

Adds language attributes.

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:: <VAR ID="topicone" LANG="en-US" CLASS=section>filename</var>

Netscape

Nothing special.

Microsoft IE

Nothing special.

Internationalization

Nothing special.

Michael T. Rusk
Comments to author: mike@ruskfamily.com

Revised: Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:06 -0500
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