This list summarizes the extensions that Microsoft has made to HTML for the Internet Explorer browser.

The elements shown here are in all capital letters; the attributes are indicated by initial capital letters.

HTML structure and comment elements

Microsoft adds nothing.

The HEAD and Related Elements

Microsoft adds nothing.

The BODY and Related Elements

Microsoft adds:

• Support for cascading style sheets.
• MARQUEE: creates a scrolling text marquee. Attributes:
  • Align="top|bottom|middle"
  • Behavior="scroll|slide|alternate" (scroll = continous movement; slide = display once and then sit there; alternate = slide in and reverse out)
  • Direction="left|right"
  • Loop="how many times to scroll"
  • Scrollamount="pixels/time"
  • Scrolldelay="milleseconds between scroll movements"
  • BGColor = color of background behind text
  • Width = width in pixels of marquee
  • Height = height in pixels of marquee
  • Hspace = pixels to leave as buffer left and right of marquee
  • Vspace = pixels to leave as buffer above and below marquee
• BGSOUND: plays a soundtrack when the document is displayed. Attributes:
  • Src="url of sound file"
  • Loop="number of times to replay file"
• New attributes for IMG used for inline movies:
  • Dynsrc="URL of the AVI movie"
  • Controls - when present, it adds "VCR-like" controls to the movie image.
  • Loop="number of times to play the movie"
  • Start="mouseover|fileopen", when movie begins to play, fileopen is default.
• New BODY attributes:
  • BGProperties="fixed" - if present, this freezes the background image defined in Background to the browser window so that it does not scroll with the text.
  • Topmargin="pixels of buffer at top of page"
  • Leftmargin="pixels of left margin indent"
• New TABLE body and cell colors:
  • <TABLE Bgcolor="color" >
  • <TR Bgcolor="color" >
  • <TH Bgcolor="color" >
  • <TD Bgcolor="color" >
• Support for frames.
• Extension for floating frames -- you can place a frame on an HTML page wherever you can place an IMG element.

References

• Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML Features supported (from Microsoft).