Style tag in HTML5

Introduction

The HTML <style> tag is used for declaring style sheets within your HTML document. The <style> tag is supported in all major browsers. The required type attribute defines the content of the style element. The only possible value is "text/CSS". The style element always goes inside the head section.

let's look at an example. If you want the color of some text to look red, the style attribute would look like this:

style="color:red"

The style sheet property is "color". The value of the color is "red". Notice there is a colon in between color and red, not an equal sign and there are no extra quote marks.

Insert style into an HTML tag, such as the <DIV> tag. Place a semicolon after your first property and value, and add another. So if we want the text to be read and to be italic, we would do the following:

<DIV style="color:red; font-style:italic">This style for some red-hot italic text!</DIV>

Attributes

HTML tags can contain one or more attributes. Attributes are added to a tag to provide the browser with more information about how the tag should appear or behave.

There are 3 kinds of attributes that you can add to your HTML tags: Element-specific, global, and event handler content attributes. The attributes that you can add to this tag are listed below.

Element-Specific Attributes

The following table shows the attributes that are specific to this tag/element.

Attributes Introduced by HTML5

Attributes	Description
Type	type is used to specify the content type which is generally text/CSS.
Media	media can be used to specify which media the styles are associated to. A value such as screen, print, projection, braille, speech or all can be used or a combination in a comma-separated list.
Scoped	if the <style> tag is being used outside of the document <head>, it must have the scoped attribute.

Global Attributes

The following attributes are standard across all HTML 5 tags.

HTML5 Global Attributes
accesskey	draggable	style
class	hidden	tabindex
dir	spellcheck
contenteditable	id	title
contextmenu	lang

Event Handler Content Attributes

Here are the standard HTML 5 event handler content attributes.

onabort	onerror*	onmousewheel
onblur*	onfocus*	onpause
oncanplay	onformchange	onplay
oncanplaythrough	onforminput	onplaying
onchange	oninput	onprogress
onclick	oninvalid	onratechange
oncontextmenu	onkeydown	onreadystatechange
ondblclick	onkeypress	onscroll
ondrag	onkeyup	onseeked
ondragend	onload*	onseeking
ondragenter	onloadeddata	onselect
ondragleave	onloadedmetadata	onshow
ondragover	onloadstart	onstalled
ondragstart	onmousedown	onsubmit
ondrop	onmousemove	onsuspend
ondurationchange	onmouseout	ontimeupdate
onemptied	onmouseover	onvolumechange
onended	onmouseup	onwaiting

For Example

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
h1 {color:red;}
p {color:blue;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Style tag in HTML5</h1>
<p>A paragraph.
<br />The HTML style tag is used for declaring style sheets within your HTML document. The
<style> tag is supported in all major browsers. The required type attribute defines the content of the style element.
</p>
</body>
</html>

Internet Explorer]

FireFox

Type attribute

The type attribute identifies the content between the <style> and </style> tags. The value "text/CSS" indicates that the content is standard CSS.

<style type="text/css">
h1 {color:red}
p {color:blue}
</style>undefined</head>undefined<body>
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<p>A paragraph.</p>undefined</body>

Media Attribute

The media attribute is used to specify different styles for different media types. To define more than one media type per style element, use a comma-separated list.

<style type="text/css" media="screen,projection">