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(Notice: this post reads weird for a specific reason. I’m attempting to use 19 HTML elements that I have either never used, or used rarely.)

This was fun. In fact, I have been quoted saying of it:

The HTML element quiz at justsayhi.com is probably one of the greatest HTML element quiz’s on the whole entire world wide web. In fact, I would recommend it to anyone who does HTML markup and for educators who teach it.

At first I wasn’t sure how to use it¹. But realizing that all I had to do was type the element’s title (without the carrots like so: “table“) only took 2 of my precious seconds.

Thought I would do better than I did, I was told my score was like 100% 50%. I blanked on some obvious ones like “center” and “dl”. But there were a few that I either have never used or didn’t even know about. Like one that extends abbr. text. After sorting through them and eliminating the those elements marked as “deprecated” by W3C, I made a list of every item I either needed to familiarize myself with, or needed to use for the first time. So, in this post I am using all 19 of them in very creative ways.

<abbr>

Used to mark something as abbreviated.

<acronym>

Used to mark something as an acronym.

<address>

Indicates the author’s address (probably a good reason I never use this one )

<blockquote>

Used to indicate block quotes.

<cite>

Indicates a citation.

<code>

Marks text as code.

<del>

An item marked as “deleted”.

<dfn>

Indicates a word that is a definition (like in textbooks when a term is used the first time).

<dt>

The term in a definition list.

<dl>

The definition of the term in a definition list.

<dd>

List of definitions (used with dd, and dt).

<ins>

Text marked as inserted.

<kbd>

Text marked as keyboard insertion by the user.

<samp>

Text marked as output.

<sup>

Superscript.

<tt>

Indicates teletype text (like DOS prompts).

P.S. The address I have in the postcard background graphic of my other blog is a fake. But for those who can’t read it, here it is:

¹: Yes, I was talking about the quiz with this very unclear pronoun.

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