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HTML width attribute

width

The purpose of the HTML width attribute is to specify the width of the element.

Supported elements

HTML width attribute supports iframe, img, object, table, col and colgroup elements.

Syntax

<ElementName width="value">.....</ElementName>

Where ElementName is any supported element.

Type of value

Length for all the supported elements except col and colgroup. For col and colgroup elements it can be the relative length.

Default value

There is no default value of HTML width attribute.

Supported doctypes

HTML 4.01 strict, HTML 4.01 transitional, HTML 4.01 frameset. For iframe HTML 4.01 transitional.

Example of HTML width attribute with img element

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Example of HTML width attribute with img element</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><img src="../../images/w3logo5.gif" alt="logo" width="150" height="78" />
</p>
</body>
</html>

Result

html width attribute with img element

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Example of HTML width attribute

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