- An element can have attributes
- The a element in HTML has an href attribute
<a href="http://java.sun.com"> ... </a>
- An attribute has a name (such as href) and a value
- The attribute value is enclosed in single or double quotes
- An element can have multiple attributes
<img src="hamster.jpeg" width="400" height="300"/>
- An element can have both attributes and content
<a href="http://java.sun.com">Sun's Java web site</a>